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

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After the outbreak of the war, the Mehrzhl of these buildings were confiscated again and set up as military lazeretes, while the duchy school buildings remained untouched,The freedom of university studies was not respected,Gestapo agents attended the lectures to monitor the guidelines of the teaching, here too everything had to disappear, which in the school youth could maintain the spirit of independence. In philosophy and in history teaching as well as in the law faculty the pressure increased.The medical faculty was not spared either, since the German authorities were surprised by the fact that they did not inspire the biological racial theory.The Catholic seminaries also gave rise to numerous interventions, because they were obliterated that they spread the Christian doctrine without regard to the ideology existing in the empire, The Minister of Education, although he willingly bowed to all orders that came from the protector, Kartxegix, was not found reliable. He had to get to numerous places on the *estapo under epe qona de oreqs d erm pan daetz All these means of moral and physical pressure remained unsuccessful.Many professors suspected of the German Regise emigrated, their Nsmen cannot be called, in order not to endanger their Kefxkkaank families: the Czech National Committee has a complete list of names. The Czechoslovak university circles, which remained, resisted massively and successfully.The Nazi did not succeed in setting up a Czech Nazi movement which would have been definitely hounded by the loss of independence, and they also failed to intimidate the intellectual classes and, above all, the university elite, or to win through persuasion, brutals and numerous brows.The rapid occupation of Poland seemed to those leading German circles "really to