"The Germans also took a certain number of girl students, at Prague, especially from the Hostel Budec, in the course of the same nocturnal raid. Many girls, dragged on to large open spaces surrounded by tanks, were raped before the eyes of the fettered students, some by several men, one after another. The German soldiers burned the breasts of their victims with cigarettes. Other girls were compelled to drink the contents of spittoons filled with urine and became ill with disgust. The men students were powerless spectators of these frightful scenes. Those who, from fear or disgust, uttered a cry or manifested their horror in any way whatsoever, in face of such ignominy, were immediately subjected to fresh tortures; one was shot, another had his thighs pierced by bayonet thrusts.

"The theologians of the Grand Seminary of Prague and the inmates of Arnost the Archbishop of Pardubice Catholic College were likewise subjected to savage cruelty.

Nazi Atrocities in Brno

"Even though the Czech students at the University and Polytechnic Institute of Brno took no part at all in the events at Prague, the Kounic Foundation of that city, corresponding to the Syehla and Masaryk Foundations at Prague, was stormed by the German troops, the girl students raped before the dejected witnesses, who were powerless to do anything. Four hundred and seventy students were sent to concentration camps. In the town of Pribram, the students of the School of Mines were not treated any better.

Destruction of Czech Universities

"In all requisitioned schools or scientific institutions the Germans immediately seized the valuable apparatus, instruments, and scientific installations, especially in the Polytechnic Institute, the Natural History Institute, and the Faculty of Medicine in Prague. The scientific libraries were pillaged in a systematic and methodical, certainly in a premeditated way. Books and scientific films were either torn or taken away; the records of the Academic Senate, the highest authority of the University, were torn or burnt, and the card-indices destroyed or scattered.

"The Czech institutions of higher learning closed for three years by a decree of the State Secretary, K. H. Frank, were:

Charles IV. University of Prague

The Polytechnics of Prague and Brno

Masaryk's University of Brno

Commercial School of Prague

School of Mines of Pribram

Agricultural and Veterinary School of Brno

The Faculty of Catholic Theology at Olomouc

The Jan Hus Faculty of Protestant Theology of Prague

"Recent reports from Prague state that all these institutions will remain closed for the duration of the war."