STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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- 85 - and in every respect has precedence over the Czech language, which is the language of the heated Fation.This privilege is not only reserved to the 3 g of the German son of the Protectorate, but it also refers to all the words that have come or will come to the Protectorates from the Great German Reich,Every German has the right, with the According to this decree , which had been issued towards the end of June, should enter into force on 15 July 1939, which meant that purely Czech authorities in only Czech districts had to take all the necessary precautions within three weeks, which they had to comply with in the The authorities set up by the German Regineeim Protectorate use German language only not only in traffic with the Czech authorities in the Protectorate, but also in the traffic with Czech private territories,the Czech applicant may also contact them. apply only with a German petition ; even in the minimum traffic with the Czech parties, these authorities use only the German language,Ceffentliche Kundaachungen and some few cases are the only ones. Exception, as the Czech audience is addressed in both languages; however, the German version is always in the first place and has Goltigkeit as authentic text. In the case of the so-called autonomous Czech authorities, the decree regulates the language issue with the same obscurity.They are allowed to deal with purely Czech matters in bilingual terms, with the German language in the first place - as long as they have the exclusive