English Translation

Prof. Or. Jng. August Geßner 3 Derbandsobmann des Deutschen Rulturverbands Prag VII., Letohradská 38. Konstantinsbad,on 10.9.1940. roa au Pamtur H Janngik Mr. 6/12 Oberregierungsrat Dr. G i e s s , personal speaker of the State Secretary in P r a g . Subject: Educational protection activities of the Cultural Association. The report by the head of the district association of the BDo in Brno came into my hands only today with your letter of 24 August. Since I have been absent from Prague for a long time, I ask you to excuse the delay in the execution. After taking note of the report of the BDO, I would like to say that the divisions of the Cultural Association on the disposition of the Commissioner for the Protection of Organisations had to cease their activities soon after the creation of the Protectorate, so that we had to stick to the newly created posts and divisions in our survey and school work as a result. It is true that, among other things, we have used the breakdowns of the BDO, whose organisation in the Brno area was soon established, for the survey work, so that the BDo actually contributed to the building of schools. In our view, however, the BDO cannot form the cooperation made available to the cultural association in such a way that it happened in its report of ll.7.1940, because then the same claim could also be made by the parties and the bodies of the individual Oberlandrats, who have also taken over the surveys to ensure all the necessary documentation and insight into the requirements. Right after the March days of 1939, we handed over to our Gauschulreferenten, who were still in office, the basics for school planning with the order to collect the necessary fine cases: St. S. πD2o