STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 175, sig. 109-2/77

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10 The Imperial Protector 105 in Bohemia and Moravia I 1 a = 7981 An a) Division I and II as well as all the groups of the Authority (including the Moravian Group) b) Lords of the Upper Land Councils, c) Lord Commander of the Security Police at the Imperial Protector in Bohemia, and Moravia, d) Lord Commandant of the Police of the Order at the Reich Protector in Böhmen and Moravia in Prague, e) Mr. Wehrmacht Plenipotentiary at the imperial Protector in Moravia and Bohemia in Prague. Subject: Use of languages in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia - local names. - the follow-up to my decrees of 24 June 1939 - I 1a - 3770-, 12 August 1939 - 1 a - 6102 -, 2. Septem- BI I - T1t Jeqada6t pun - T -e T I - 62 eq 758l II - I announce that I have defined the German designation of the villages in the Proteltorat Bohemia and Moravia and their spelling on the basis of the proposals of a Commission which I have set up according to scientific principles, mainly historical aspects. The local sign, which is then formed, will soon appear in printed hand copies and will be delivered to yhns. The work already begun to define the name of the place can then be adjusted. With the transmission of the local sign- ings printed in wm, can be used in 3 weeks' time.