Abstract
THE Czechoslovak National Council has just issued a publication, “German Cultural Oppression in Czechoslovakia” London: Allen and Unwin, 6d.), outlining the position in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Oppressive measures began after the Munich “agreement” of 1938, whereby a million Czechs in the ceded territories lost their scientific and technical institutions and places of higher education and culture. Pressure was simultaneously brought to bear upon the still nominally independent Czech Ministry of Education to eradicate Jewish and other “undesirable” elements in the universities. After the German entry into Prague in March 1939, all cultural work and scientific research came to a standstill. All Government departments and local administration passed into German hands and since that tune the furor teutonicus has raged against all the intellectual activities of the nation. A Nazi censorship spent months purging libraries of every book or journal containing any reference distasteful to its narrow doctrines. Concurrently with this, books and valuable apparatus were removed from Czech universities, scientific institutes and museums and were either sent to Germany or wantonly destroyed.
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