STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1743, sig. 109-4/1498 Page 62 · 62 of 71
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1743, sig. 109-4/1498
English Translation
25 Sequestration of the university buildings, robbery of the scientific collections, e da e After the Germans had occupied the buildings, they began to rattle in their way, in all scientific institutes and recuierated schools they immediately seized all the adparates, which had a value, the instruments, the scientific institution, especially in the technical universities, on the Faculty of Natural History and on the medical faculty. The scientific libraries are systematically and methodically robbed. Knowledge books and films were torn apart or removed, the archives of the Academic Senate/the highest university authority/were torn or burned, the 4 arthotheques destroyed or scattered, objects that were personal property of the Frofessors or assistants were seized, and the same fate came upon them. The losses are immeasurable and, to a large extent, irreplaceable, especially as regards books and archives.Then, the secretary of state Frank personally ordered that the Sexakeax Czech universities remain closed for three years. The institue concerned are as follows: &arlsunversitat to Prague, Teschnischy hoschools ind Prague and in Brüm, Brno University.Handsslshochschule in Prague,Montan school in Pribram, the rural school and the veterinary school in Brinn, theological faculty in Olomouc, Protestant faculty Johann Hus in Prague. The University Hospitals were violently and ruthlessly evacuated and later occupied with military personnel on November 7th.