THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1716, sig. 109-4/1471

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A 2 deals with a relatively small number of politically selected and racially tested, linguistically and professionally very well qualified teachers, some of whom even have German citizenship. Nor did the Reich Ministry of Education have any concerns. NSLB and SD are to take over the further supervision of Czech teachers. Of course, the Czechs would only be taught in non-contemporary subjects such as Mathenatics, Physics, Chemistry, Latin or English, in which the ideological moment plays a subordinate role. Teachers themselves see their secondment as a war operation, the necessity of which they see, and it is to be expected that they will perform their task, for which they will be specially trained by the German Central Institute for Education and Education in Berlin, responsibly. In addition, it is considered that about a quarter of a million Czechs. Workers, postal workers and railway workers are employed in the war-important enterprises of the Old Reich, so any political concerns that could speak against the planned secondment of 60 Czech teachers to German schools should also be put back. In Bohemia and Moravia, five new German teacher training institutions have been set up and the four existing facilities have been extended, so that the German teacher education institutions now count 39 years compared to 13 in the previous year. From the neighbouring regions, pupils who will later be working as teachers in the Protectorate will be able to take good care of them in school and at home. As the local school administration already expected the old- Reich German teachers, the teachers required for the teacher training institutions were deducted from the German upper schools. The higher German school system of Bohemia and Moravia is therefore in a difficult situation after the rejection of the exchange, because it is now only dependent on the already existing teaching capacities of the 20 German upper schools and previous 4 teacher training institutions and thus the teaching operation can only be maintained with restrictions. - 3 -