Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1001, sig. 110-10/3

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- 17 - thousands of radios and books have been issued and numerous Czech artist tours have been carried out through the autonomous Prague Ministry of People's Enlightenment. In addition to the few things that I have been able to list, there is a wealth of cultural support work in the fact that last year the Czech school system was largely transformed to the technical side. We have reduced the overbreeding of the higher education system, but in these five years the technical school system of 230 classes with S000 pupils has been extended to the present level of 600 classes with 17,000 pupils. In this respect, the Board of Trustees for Youth Education in Bohemia and Moravia now has 300,000 Czech boys and 85,00 Czech girls as volunteers. In addition to the political training, the existing youth organizations have achieved unique achievements in spert and play, which the Czech Srort had never achieved before: there are swimming facilities of the Czech youth, there was a major action for athletics championships with 20.ooo participants. These championships reached a high point last autumn for the Youth Day in Prague with 60,000 listeners. In addition to this education, the youth care through film and theatre, as well as the social actions of the youth were planned. At Christmas nights, thousands of dolls were produced by Czech girls, who were then donated to children of German soldiers. This is just an excerpt from this work. According to the socio-economic side, I can only hint at things in large contexts. I have already talked about the purely economic advantages of inclusion in the large German economic area, but I would like to mention that Czech agriculture has achieved a very significant increase in its results by integrating it into the large area of German agricultural methods, because, after the establishment of the Protectorate, Bohemia and Moravia had a serious nutritional burden on the Reich. The Reich had to damels not only as today fat steppe, but also bread and meat and cattle in a considerable fair in the Pro-