STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1743, sig. 109-4/1498

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Archlu the Stantsfecretary at the Reldspeotekior in Bögmen and Iagren. N Denkmal des Czechoslovekischen Nationalausecnasses DETERMINING the pursuit of university studies and the suppression of scientific activity in Bötmen and Moravia. Aim of Pangermanism: Suppression of Czechoslovak culture. lektual Czechoslovakian "eben was one of the aims of Pangereanism still long since Germany had occupied Czechoslovakia. By considering itself, by the way, wrongly, as the only cultural bearer among the peoples living east of the Rhine, Germany demanded a kind of intellectual vassal of these peoples, to whom it allegedly handed over the riches of the Western civilization,For the benefits obtained 1st of the years ago, the Chethians, Poles, etc., Germany should remain eternally conceivable and In addition, the political theorists of Pangermanism - and unso much that of Nazism = b trechten their people as a chosen people, which stands higher and which can claim the right to subjugate the Nabhbar peoples and to succumb to them as formless slave masses under the knute of the master people all the low works you should only be intelligent enough to understand the commands received and to be able to sussive them. One's own intellectual life should be forbidden to those Velkern ,xtke whose only constraint dåe should be laborious work for the Woblstand, size and power of Germany,In the writings of Adolf Eitler, Rosenberg and other founders of Nazism this goal is often proclaimed with a sincerity bordering on cynicism. As soon as the Absicnts of the Empire began to clarify concerning the Ishekhozlovsky. the Czechoslovaks \V.P-1/41.