STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 425, sig. 109-4/170

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9 leaders, a duty to serve in camps, where the young people were to be led by selected Tachechian youth leaders. Perhaps one could also think of a certain connection with the HJ camps in these camps with -the AJ. In order to enable the high school graduates to take part in this youth service, Obergruppenführer suggested that compulsory schooling would be reduced by half a year, and that in this six-month period, which was lost for the school, the youth service of the high schools would take place. Finally, Obergruppenführer discussed the question of Czech universities, pointing out that he felt that war could not decide on the issue of the reopening of Czech colleges. This must be understood by the Obergruppenführer, who says that it is not possible to think of opening universities in places where Hochschüleh already exists, because it is only possible to carry out measures which are really important for the war, which is necessary for both factual and for reasons of the management of the Kenschen. As an interim solution, Obergruppenführer suggested that the high school students, who had proved to be positive elements, e.g. due to the experience in the youth camps, could study at the universities of the Reich and perhaps even as a special award at the German universities in Prague. In order to promote this study of Czech high school graduates, Obergruppenführer introduced the president to the idea of a Hácha Foundation from which scholarships for