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20 Office of the State Secretary GEHEIMI at the Reichsp:olektor in Bohemia un) maheen. Eing.: 24.MAI 1043 Betr.: Meeting with the Rector of the German Charles University, Prague, Magnificence B u n t r u , on 22 May 1943. Magnifizenz Buntru had asked me a few days ago for a fundamental debate on high school policy issues. This debate took place on 22 may 1943. Until then, I had avoided a fundamental debate with the rector in accordance with the instructions, and in this meeting, which was, moreover, extremely friendly, I limited myself in the question of the rectorate to taking note of the Rector's position. Magnificence Buntru first reported on his conversation with the group leader and emphasized that 2 things had to be paid special attention: 1. The university should not step into the background against the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation, the Academy of Sciences and the Sudetendeutsche Anstalt in Reichenberg. It is wrong that the various journals (Volksforschung in Böhmen und Mähren, Zeitschrift für sudetendeutsche Geschichte, Südostforschungen) are published by the above-mentioned institutes, while the university does not appear at all. One gets the impression that the Academy and the Heydrich Foundation developed scientific activity while the university fell asleep. In the past, the university association had secured a certain public activity of the university and the technical university; he now wanted to try to activate the university federation, but realized that there were considerable difficulties for a public lecture system. In any case, it must be achieved that the university has the undisputed leadership throughout the scientific sector. I replied that, at any rate, the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation had never sought to form a small university, but that, on the contrary, close cooperation was the programme. I would have refused, for example, that Prof. Zatschek has rooms in the French embassy, because I believe that the institute, which is one of the leading institutions in the country, should be in the immediate vicinity of the university's historical seminary. It should be tried to give it rooms for the Heydrich Foundation's national historical institution in the Kinsky Palace. Moreover, the fact is that R-2/438 2 -