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

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To leave Coto 18, the Germans have called upon the tech niques to place, in place of the semi-German culture during the Austrian period, a whole-Czech culture which loosened the links with Germany, and through the path taken for a hundred years, their own culture through influences not from Germany, but from France and the Anglo-Saxon countries. The Germans in the republic considered this enteickling as a sghmach and an injustice inflicted on them, they did not aim at cultural autonomy, because it was practically realized; they were the superpower of German culture, which they wanted to achieve,Mr. K.Bittner,Froffessor at the Prague German University published in Years l936 a book entitled "German and Czech" in which he defied the ferdès theory that the Czechs in the Middle Ages had formed the "social underclass", which owes their intellectual development to the *Unvelt and the German example".He did not conceal his intention to "pull out of this maladventure and political possibilities for the future" and remarked :" Invasion of the German Eelemt into the Bohemian countries is mur a component of the great German urge to the East". After Minchen: Anschlah to the liberties of the university and expulsion _dgdischer_ ligsengchaftler. These privileges of a neutral observer and the declarations of a German Velehrten anöchau lich the German position against the teebseiehen csche- choslovak culture.The first steps to the gag and the paralysis of the free development were immediately subverted to Munich. Rur the one million Czechs who live out Germany immediately stopped every intellectual quake. Some elementary debts remained afflicted, but this did not suffice for the closure of hundreds of lower and higher secondary schools, academic institutes, universities, universities and universities.