STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 437, sig. 109-4/182 Page 10 · 10 of 21
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 437, sig. 109-4/182
English Translation
X a/ The interned students. At my audition on June 27th, I pointed out the special importance of the matter of the interned high school students. The favourable solution to this question through the dismissal of all students who are still interned - insofar as individuals do not face personal guilt - is not only for the internees and their parents, but is of far greater importance for the whole Czech public. These are young people who could be well involved in the work process and help their parents during the difficult war period. Furthermore, a larger number of these high school students were dismissed earlier, and the parents as well as the wider circles could rightly expect that the other students too will soon return. If the previous discharge was received with great satisfaction, the extension of the internment of more than 500 students must necessarily increase the buzzer and the worries of the parents and disturb the public. Because the reasons for the internment were the same for those who had already been released, as for those still interned, and the cessation of the absences must appear incomprehensible if neither the students nor the parents have given rise to a new, unfavorable measure. In November this year, it will have been two years since these young people found themselves in concentration camps.The last group of 200 students came after the last