English Translation

89 -7- the question of the end of the war was left open, which visibly satisfied. Very much was interested in the extent of Czech studies in the Reich. Especially the Japanese tried to obtain figures from various places. When they heard from Minister Moravec that the Czechs are not yet open to the study of the humanities, they were very sceptical about this, expressing the opinion that a real cultural autonomy of a people could only be influenced by its free intellectual activity. In other circumstances, however, a Japanese representative explained that even the philosophical faculties in Japan were closed with regard to the total war. Another very popular topic was the Jewish question. One was particularly interested in the living conditions of the Jews in the ghetto in Theresienstadt and in these oi discussions various regretful remarks were spread that the kingdom had created itself by an overly rigorous treatment of the Jewish people abroad a lot of enemies. The Japanese Uresiono explained that he could compromise the German point of view, but in Japan the anti-Semitic measures of the empire were very unpopular, because in Japan there was no racial mixture between Japanese and Jews and thus every danger moment was eliminated. The board of trustees for youth education in Bohemia and Moravia also attracted special attention among foreign journalists. The tour of the journalists to a camp of the Kura- rium certainly brought many positive impressions to them, although on the other hand they felt that the honest, but unintentional viewer was exaggerated and unreal German-friendly activism of the Czech camp leader and his instructors was played. Questions were also asked as to whether the instructors of the board of trustees were not "crazy Czech existences" and former unemployed people, who had now found a job by the Germans and were therefore politically linked to them. -O Very often the question was raised as to why the Reich did not allow the Czechs to serve in military service. The Spaniard even asked the Obergruppenführer the concrete question whether the exclusion of the Czechs from military service was not a dklassie.