GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 683, sig. 110-4/533

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It was only the relatively small group who immediately met the still specialized schools and so on. 2. Absolutely wrong is the claim of the circuit board about the close of the vocational schools. In the protectorate Sisher no vocational school was closed. On the other hand, ASOSEUS had to close the specialized schools etc. In order to be able to bring the teachers to work and to free the buildings for important purposes of war. As a result, of course, younger pupils and pupils of the specialized schools, who up to now could not be brought to work, are temporarily untrained. 3. Young boys and girls who have completed the l4th year of life and are currently still in general education, of course, remain in it. It has never been thought of pulling them out prematurely. 4. (a) These are measures which are carried out throughout the territory of the Reich, and therefore also in the district of Mähr.Ostrau. The fact that they sometimes have different effects in different areas is inevitable. In the Protectorate doos, the use of labour is very rapid and really total. The consequence of this is that some measures were carried out faster and more radically here than in the neighbouring Sudetengau, where they come to you in the course of the time 26. Moreover, there are incomparably more favorable conditions here than, for example, in the East= and Westgauen of the Reich, where there is no teaching at all. (b) Above all, however, the district administration overlooks the fact that, for political reasons, for the relatively small number of MS of German pupils, no exception can be made to the general rules.