STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1722, sig. 109-4/1477 Page 18 · 18 of 101
A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1722, sig. 109-4/1477
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10a) JC SL SW StMDeSmpEL remained open, who is. With regard to this piece-by-piece equipment of powers, I limited myself during the funeral to convey only the last greetings of the Sudeten German homeland in general, and above all of the German Karls University, the German Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Reichenberg State Research Institute, while I did not speak for the Gau. In all of this, I had the firm conviction that you, Minister of State, and Gauleiter Konrad Henlein, would honor the memory of a man who has become much too late to live in Munich for the Munich people to have been able to express at the funeral what rank he has taken in the struggle for popularism in the Sudeten region. I believe that it is a deep commitment by the Sudeten countries to get Gierach back home in every respect, if it has not been possible to do the same thing as I938, as it would in fact have wished for the most greedy. It is precisely for this reason, Mr President, that I would like to draw your attention to some of the suggestions I have made with the Rector of the University and which I believe would be an appropriate form of honour for Prague and the Protectorate. Since Gierach spent the crucial time of his life in Prague and from the university such as the Academy and the Sudeten Deutscher Geschichtsverein had the strongest effect on the sudetenGerman cultural work, the education of the students and, above all, the national clean-up of the high schools, I(E3 would welcome it very much, if still in January, about 22. or 23, a funeral service carried by the University, the German Academy of Sciences and the History Association BBBe for Gierach, for example, in the Langemarckhaus or in the Rudolfinum.If you are to agree to such an intention - I would like to ask you very much - then I would warmly welcome it if you, Minister of State, would take the floor with regard to your long-standing acquaintance with GierACH and from the knowledge of his life's work, but above all also with respect to your high position in the protectorate. All university teachers and students would be particularly pleased if you knew about this following Gierach's cross-border-