THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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English Translation

109.) Rightly or wrongly, always isolated and threatened, If the Soviet Union had been eliminated from organized Europe again, this interplay of the new organized political units in Europe would lose its balance as though the German influence in the direction of the East had been too much strengthened, moreover, it would lead again absolutely inescapably to the attempts to keep Russia out of influence in Europe at all and to isolate it. Over the last twenty years, this policy has brought more than one disadvantage to the Soviet Union, whose inner satisfaction and economic development, with the help of the rest of Europe, has been able to take place more quickly and easily, but even greater disadvantages to Europe. The Russian European continent belongs simply geographically and politically to Europe as well as to the British islands belonging to it, that is a scientific and political fact, This constant balance-setting and disintegration of the East in favor of Germany was one of the causes of the Second World War. And if this mistake repeated itself, it would probably lead to the Third War, 7.) In northern Europe, a greater Scandinavian political cooperation could develop - in consultation with Great Britain and Russia. In the south-west, the Iberian cooperation.