English Translation

-3-10G GRVOTNF She could not devote herself to the care of pure science, as the academies in the nationally secured internal German territory; her entire work was from the beginning put in the service of the national defense struggle of the sudeten- German ethnic group. Therefore, in her sphere of activity besides the sciences also the creative arts were involved. And in the first quarter of a century K, the work of the "society" in the artistic field was at least as important as the work had to be re-created once again on scientific, as a result of the already far-reaching, planned advance of the Czechs, to which no one on the German side had approached, first of all the whole basic requirements for training for the possibility of living of German artists in Bohemia in tough struggle also with the Old Austrian authorities. - With the intensified struggle for space since the founding of the Czech State in the year l98, the group of southern linguistic and historical works became the focus of the work in the broadest sense: the focus shifted more and more to the scientific work, which was almost exclusively the exhibition of the German cultural achievement in the middle eastern region; therefore, in the works of the "society" also the natural sciences recede, the humanities are in the foreground, just as for the same reasons for the Reichsuniversität Strassburg has just now emerged as necessary. 19751