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89 in Olomouc, 80 percent of the men, members of the SA, took women who could barely speak German. The mothers then raised children as Czechs, because the fathers were working all day. (226) In the spring of 1940 the Brno Oberlandrat complained that in Brno 37 Germans married in three months (including three of the empire and one of Austria). More than half of these men were members of the Nazi Party or other leading Nazi organizations. Only five of these Brno women spoke fluently German, which meant that others were a loss to Germanism, as the Earth's Council said. (227) "Czechs grow up from the children of Czech mothers and German fathers," wrote the Pilsen Supreme Earth Council, because the Germans are usually not proud enough in their relationship with the Czech woman or claim it. (228) The Nazis were not satisfied with the marriages of German women who married "non-Germans" in the Protectorate because it weakened the German community in the protectorate. "In such a large number of men with imperial citizenship sent to the Reich to perform their duties, there remained only a few in the Protectorate, single bachelors," they complained about the Brno oblandrate. (229) The expert of the Ministry of the Interior for the Racial Lawmaking Hans Globke therefore sketched a new modification. (230) She allowed mixed marriages, continued to require special permission of the Oberlandrate for them. The applicants had to undergo a racial examination. According to the original regulations they were obliged to supply photographs on which they were naked, but later this requirement was changed and sufficient pictures in swimsuits. If the examination did not bring definitive conclusions (which probably happened in most cases), the authorities decided whether a foreign candidate constituted a benefit to Germanism. (231) The question of mixed marriages was thus resolved, but the problem of extramarital sexual relations remained. According to the Nazis, it was not only about protecting German blood, but also about preventing public corruption and maintaining quiet working conditions (232), so it became the subject of secret directives of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA). If they were an enemy empire, they should immediately be sent to a concentration camp. The same procedure should have been applied in the case of rape or contact with a married German woman, especially if she was the wife of a member of the armed forces.