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

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-9 6 professors in the Czech Eoch schools were not very large with Rick's view of the low percentage of Jewish E,ements under the Czechoslovak population, but in literature, art, theatre and film, as well as in the scientific field their share at var rxxxkex was objectionable, which, however, before Munich, no one had to stir up an attack. On order from Berlin/ the government of the Zveite Republic xxxxtx dismissed all Jewish professors and also "gubbed" the press and the economic life of Jews. Due to this little glorious measure the Czecho-Slovak head of knowledge lost some scientists of rank - for example the mathematician and statistician of the world- call Prof. Schoenbaum, the famous linguist Prof,Jakobson, who organized the *Prague School " and has been their motor force, among many others.Professor Otakar Fischer, a Fermanist very well known in the international scientific circles, who transferred the "Faust von Goethe into the Czech Republic, a delicate poet and well-founded Wiasenschaftler became victims of the "erve collapse, which occurred as a result of the unbearable *ervespension of the months before Minchen; he var the first victim to record the Czechoslovak science.And then came the others.At the German universities in Czechoslovakia, where professors of all confessions and all political nuances taught until Munich, became All Jewish and liberal professors - e.g. the famous jurist Jelsen- dismissed and immediately replaced by necistian professors. After the 15th of March. Efforts and gaggling of the techechoslovak spiritual life. A - The invasion of the Germans in Prague on 15 March 1939 made possible Germany, which provided with all means of imprint, spy's nose and tortures, its