English Translation

30 - 4 - of about 27.0% only 23o Germans were counted, i.e. about 0.9 %.- A similar picture offered the decline of Germanism in the city of Pilsen, where finally the German population share was hardly more than 4 %. - It is extremely characteristic for the Czech mentality that even after the assignment of the sudeten German territory, ie in the agony months of the The Czech-Slovak Republic, which had the trinity of the Czech leadership of the Skodawerke, carried out an action against the German followers. It was more or less open to understand that there were no jobs for the Germans in the new Czechoslovakian republic. It was tried by cunning and all kinds of official harassment, such as transfer to subordinate posts or cold positions, etc., to disgust the Germans from the works.- Most Germans would have also gone, because in Germany good possibilities of existence lured, but the Führer commanded to endure in all circumstances at the place of work.- The creation of the Protectorates was a turning point for the badly fused remnants of the Skoda Germans. It triggered in them the legitimate expectation that now the Skodawerke will become German again and that they themselves would be compensated for the 20 years of oppression by new professional development opportunities. - Even most Czechs did not expect anything else in memory of the fall of 1918. - Strongest impetus for these expectations broke in 1939 the integration of the Skadawerke into the He Gö r n g group, whereby the Skudawerke t