German Plans To Destroy Czechs
(12.20 p.m.) NUREMBERG. June 25. Under cross-examination by Sir Maxwell Fyfe at the War Crimes trial, Baron von Neurath said it was still his view that anti-Jewish measures were necessary for cleaning up public life in Germany, but they should have been carried out by different methods. Asked why he stayed in a Government which was using murder as a political weapon, von Neurath replied that in a revolution mishaps are unavoidable and innocent people sometimes get slaughtered. Few documents were produced at this trial with such startling effect as two revealing plans to destroy the Czech nation.
One was prepared at the instance of von Neurath and the other by his deputy, Frank, who was executed in Prague recently. Both bore von Neurath’s signature. The aims outlined in Frank's document included:—
Abolition of Czech universities and secondary schools. The Czech tongue to become a mere dialect as in the 17th and 18th centuries, and disappear as the official language. Marriage only after racial examination.
Education in the German language and the “Reich idea" of the liquidation of the irreconcilable intelligentsia.
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Northern Advocate, 26 June 1946, Page 5
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