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

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All Czechoslovak organizations for the dissemination of culture, etc., which were very entricked in these buildings, were immediately dissolved and their property was handed over to the local groups of the NeDAP. Their libraries were scattered and plundered. As in political life, so also in intellectual life everything was destroyed territory. Czechoslovakia itself, mutilated and depleted by all its means of defence, was to become a sort of colony of adjudication in political and economic as well as intellectual relation, the advice from Perlin, which had the character of a threat, emphasized the impossibility of maintaining the intellectual effusions embodied by the names Masaryk and Beneš at the universities. If Czechoslovakia wants to give the national socialist German the proof that its reorientation has been sincere, total and definitive, it should above all direct its spiritual forces to its permanent and exclusive Einvernetmen ait Berlin.It is not possible to organize the national life on a new basis on the Baln of Germany and at the same time to maintain the Western critique in education, especially in higher education. The receptive and anxious authorities of the university corporatians sb October l938 - here it is pointed out that the new rector of the Bruhner University, Arne Novák, had the pressure of the German authorities to recognize the Prague government, although at that time Czechoslovakia, most formally, still mnteex, was one of the unpretentious states. The German pressure also made itself felt in the attitude of the university authorities against Jewish professors, before Winchen passed the glacial rights here as in all other domestics, The Tazahl judischer