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

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L0a Neighboring Gaue, the new institutions were secured by the necessary pupils (l20 against 426 in the past school year) and thus by the space of the teachers' young people who were indispensable for national policy. A number of school and home buildings were transferred from Czech to German possessions, teachers of the German superiors were trained for the LBA and transferred there because their replacement by rich German teachers could be expected. Immediately before the transfer of the Czech teachers to the Reich, the party chancellor objected to the exchange of teachers, so that the action had to be postponed indefinitely. Dr. Willinger, who was immediately sent by me to Münschen, was told by the Sachbe 7 iter of the party chancellery that the Czech question was still so far in vogue that one could already see the exchange action in the larger context of the re-population task. It is also against the further objective of this exchange that the Czechs covered by the action should, for example, lead to a permanent establishment in the Reich. The party chancellery could not allow the action either within the framework of the general war operation of the Czechs in the Reich, which at the moment embraces about a quarter of a million Czechs In order to perpetuate the teaching operation at the German higher schools and the teacher training institutions. After the temporary postponement of the exchange it was necessary to increase the teaching obligation of the German teachers of the higher schools and teacher education institutions, to reduce the number of hours in some objects and to put classes together. However, since a total of 35 new teachers are needed for higher schools and the measures mentioned only partially cover this failure, other possibilities must now be examined as to how substitute teachers can be procured. With regard to the school and population policy importance of the planned action, I would urge that waitra personally take 71783