English Translation

-30- 63 Call on the civilized world to save the Czechoslovak culture threatened with destruction. Assuming: Universities , universities are closed, students are imprisoned, tortured, murdered, professors are exposed to bad jokes and "faults, scientific gatherings are either disrupted or removed, art objects are stolen and scattered, artistic monuments are demolished, scientific and literary libraries are closed , works of the greatest poets and novelists are forbidden by the "ensurance , any scientific examination has been made impossible, any contact with the foreign scientific world is prohibited , Thus the disastrous image of Czechoslovak civilization , kaun one year after the arrival of the Germans in Prague . We or their x representatives have shown that all the atrocities committed by them do not constitute a vilicarious act of the subordinated Nazi bodies. It is rather a predetermined plan, which was worked out in the highest leading Nazi political and intellectual positions and which, of course, springs from the fundamental conception of Hitler. In the sense of this conception, the Czechoslovak nation should definitely be deprived of its intellectual unworld, so that it simply sinks into a reservoir of human material to carry out the works projected and conducted by the #errennation.This slavery in the fullest sense of the word is in its systematics the most reprehensible , which the Nazi Germany wants to prepare for the nation of St. Wenzel, a Johanr His of a Comenius, a T.G.Masaryk. By bringing to the knowledge of the kaki@ewissen of the civilized world, and in particular of universities and learned societies, the Czechoslovak National Council protested.