English Translation

44a 4 Creation of a German opera and operetta in Prague. The particular urgency of the demand from Prague for a German opera and operetta is based on the fact that today, three years after the establishment of the Protectorate, the Czech cultural life according to scope and performance still considerably exceeds the German cultural activity in Prague, where the permanent exhibition of the German Prague in the Reich's interest repeatedly refutes in practice. The Czechs are particularly prominent in the music care of the people. The music care was always one of their most important cultural means to preserve their national heritage. on the absolute condition that in the field of music from the German side in the centre of the cultural resistance of Prague, something of equal and superior is done. This task cannot be postponed after the end of the war. Today, the musikfr German population of Prague is dependent on the visit of the Czech and Czech operetta theatres. This is highly alarming in terms of national policy and must soon be reversed in the opposite direction, i.e. it must be achieved, the Czechs must be referred to the German culture in the shortest possible time. As soon as a German opera and opera is established, there is of course the Möglickeity Protectorate government, the state authority in Bohemia and the municipality of Prague to arrange for financial subsidies, practically at the expense of the Czech cultural care CUOS According to the estimates established from the point of view of war-sparability, the entertainment of a German Opera and Operette in Prague requires the following minimum amounts: 2,7oo.ooo,-RM as annual budget for the German Opera, 72o.oo,- RM as annual budgets for the german Operette. As the time for a promising preparation for the opening of the German opera in Prague in the autumn of this year has progressed too far, I am inclined to take part in the next 5 11490