STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1710, sig. 109-4/1465

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-4- E- 11a. Ifee their space-bound special task they remain primary:"Promoting German research in the Middle East in the service of Volk edi umd Reich, in particular to research the German cultural achievement in this area in all areas of life and to contribute to its further development for the a German people according to its strength". aUB The field of work also remains the same. Ieb g The Prague Academy will concentrate its research work primarily on the Sudeten area: i.e. on the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the SuDetengau. In addition to the cultural achievement of ed the SuDEten Germanism in this area, its asb md eastern foothills, the Carpathian Germanism, will also be taken into account m euo 286 I own scientific ventures of the Academy. etafolte notef eroatuebeaora o In the fulfilment of its space-bound special task, the Prague Academy will continue above all the great joint work of "German society". In the middle *point of this work, for the national reasons outlined above, the linguistic and historical works are in the broadest sense. MSLASI Just mentioned here: The systematic collection of UOUTO0SS and processing of the entire German dialectical coclolaop vocabulary of the Middle Eastern region by our "Wörterbuch-Kanzlei" (together with the German Academy in CoLNee Munich) for the purpose of publishing the "Sudetendeutsche Mundarten- Wortbuch"; the scheduled collection and editing 19753