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88 assigned to German colleagues often in the center of the empire to be under sufficient control and possibly undesirable opinions eliminated in time by conscious surroundings. (219) The first results of the race inventory, however, led to the embarrassment of the Nazis, as it turned out that the Czechs had better racial qualities than the Sudeten Germans, who represented "the vanguard of Nazism" in Bohemia and Moravia. From the cartoon structure of Bohemia and Moravia, among other things, it appears that the Czechs, as Nordic, Dinar and Western types represent 45% of the population, while the Sudeten Germans only 25%. (220) Walter König-Beyer of RuSHA, who was assigned by Heydrich to study this problem, concluded: ©A rough estimate regarding the racial structure of the Sudeten, ... shows that from a purely numerical point of view the racial image of the Czech population is much more favourable than that of the Sudeton German population." (221) The reports of the Rusha branch in Prague show a total number of at least 326 022 racially investigated Czechs and Czechs in the Protectorate and about 62 482 in the Reichské župa Sudeta for the period from September 1941 to February 1945 - according to researchers. (222) Isabel Heinemann writes that due to the fragmentation of evidence, it is difficult to determine the exact number of Czechs subjected to racial examination. However, the tested population were certainly tens of thousands. If a person calculates the tests performed by X-ray committees and reports by doctors who worked for the racial and settlement office, he can reach hundreds of thousands of them. (223) The racial aspect of the Germans' policy towards the Czech population in the Protectorate was reflected in the marriage process. According to the ÚŘP estimates, there were about 10,000 mixed marriages in the Czech countries just before the signing of the Munich Agreement. (224) Reichs' marriage laws originally did not discriminate against them from other foreigners. Of the 2 956 marriages, concluded here before the German authorities after 1 August 1939, 593 were mixed. This worried the Nazis. In a special conflict with the view of racial superiority, they believed that in such marriages the Czech component would usually prevail and his actions children would fall away from German nationality. (225) According to the estimates of the Supreme Council (Oberlandrat)