STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1679, sig. 109-4/1434

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English Translation

La in Prague are dię Deutsche Karls-Universität, the German Technical University, the University Institute of Music and Visual Arts and the University School of Fine Arts. a) The latter two art colleges can leave from the beginning because they were primarily supervised by the authority of the Lord Reichsprotector and only minor responsibilities remained for me. Nevertheless, the heads of these two art universities, Professor Fin k e and Professor Hö n i c h, will not be able to testify to anything other than that I have supported them to the best of my ability. b) As far as the Deutsche Technische Hochschule is concerned, its rector, Professor Dr. B u n t r u, has never been asked about the experiences he has made with the curator. His testimony will clearly be positive. c) Only the German Karls University remains. Here a false picture has been created by the continued stances of the now-departed rector S a u r e . 3) He is said to have failed in the supervision of the universities in the necessary initiative. The staff of the Reich Ministry of Education, as well as the personnel of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Ministeur B a c c a c i c h and Ministerialrat Dr. K o l l m a n n, , will have to testify the opposite, will testify, because in many personal letters, in many oral discussions and in countless long-distance conversations, I have carried out the affairs of the universities familiar to me in an initial and intensive manner as faithful experts. This applies to budgetary matters, in particular to the overshooting of the too narrow estimates of expenditure on expenditure in kind in the budget l940, as well as to all other high 14495