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

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61 -3B library is only accessible to the Germans ; a German dr aa ara t et Bücherel must pass through within 6 months. The threat that those students who do not take hold of manual work on the fixed day, will be deported to Germany, was very strict.Numerous students have been arrested on the basis of this error and sent to concentration camps,Others who rather risked the TBD than they want to live under the German regimes, fled over Slovakia and, after they had netfloated their oppressors, they crossed the Hungarian border. Some hundreds of them are now waiting in neighbouring countries for entry notes to be sent to France and to join the Czechoslovak army. TTtseCop BtLo What was the fate of the university professors and professors of technical colleges after these Tagian events? They took the matter of the students for their own, they resisted the grievances and bad jokes of the German authorities nit a dignified, calm and determined resistance. They participated in the beatings which the young man entrusted to them gave rubble. They had to suffer barbaric interrogations in the erkern of the Gestapo, many of them mishended rubly. Several of them have been murdered; we have already led the name of the lecturer Matoužek by the Philological Faculty and the physicist Šafrárek. Arne Novák, rector of the Brürn University, is different at the end of November under conditions that even the Czech radio broadcasting, which is completely in the Eden of the Deutsets, is strangely qualified. Some of them have committed suicide, a large number of them has been destroyed, others have been killed.