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81 universities in Prague. (187) Protectorate Germans began to realize that despite propaganda before 1938, these other Germans are quite different from them and are favoured against them. (188) In 1944, in a secret speech in Karlovy Studánka, Frank complained before the NSDAP officials of the Reichs County of Sudety about the alleged lack of understanding of the Imperial German officials for specific political taxes in Bohemia and Moravia. (189) For example, during the first days after the assassination of Heydrich, the German authorities in the nationally mixed areas had to intervene in order to prevent the lynching of the Czechs. The party organizations in Sudety and Vienna demanded mass expulsion of Czechs from their territories. According to SD reports, the Germans in the Protectorate insisted that the strictest measures be finally taken. They insist that the continued humane and tolerant treatment of Bohemia, as it has been so far, will only harm Germans. (191) The Czechs were not as bad as the Germans' favored remarks of the Reichs and the Czechs are not so bad and we are quite upset with them by the Protectorate German patriots: they blamed Czechs for trying to drive a wedge between the Sudeten Germans and influential Germans from the Empire. Neurath was even forced to issue an order to prohibit German workers from accepting invitations to Czech social and family events. (192) Despite this zeal of the Sudeten Germans and Frank himself, especially in the personnel composition of the Gestapo servants and other repressive forces, it was true that police officials from the Empire (193) took decisive positions, although the role of Sudety Germans in terms of knowledge of local realities and language remained unrepresentable. (194) However, the Rivalry between Reichs and Protectorate Germans did not in any way constitute a contradiction in the main objective of the Nazis, who were Germanizing the space of the protectorate and the associated solution of the so-called Czech question. In this regard, the attitude of the Reichs Germans was less obvious and more "diplomatic" towards the Czechs, but even more tricky, as Heydrich's words also testify: "There must be no German who would say: 'This Czech is a decent one.'...I will lead with these Czechs pleasant social contact, while I must be careful not to cross the line that I can get to everyone