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

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111.) This view is not dictated in me by any sense of revenge, hatred, enmity or Germanophobia. Rir me are the political-moral reasons. I do not claim that the Germans are a single people simd or that all Germans are sloshed, I say something which, in my opinion, is much more serious and far-reaching : that Germany as a nation and state is in a great moral and political decadence in which it will perhaps last for whole generations, and that it is for this most terrible war of the World history is fully responsible; that the theory of this terrible totálitary crisis in Germany and in the non-Nazist circles sohon was discussed and elaborated more than 20 years ago and that the Germans as a nation and state are responsible for Hitier and Himler as well as the Americans for Lincoln or Rossevelt, the English for Churchill, the Italians for Mussolini, the Magyars for Horthy, the Czechoslovaks for Masaryk and the Russians for Lenin and Stalin. If this thesis were not true and accepted as such, an orderly and organized international life would not be possible, and individual states and peoples must bear the consequences of this responsibility, in my opinion that is just. This justice, however, needs no revenge, no attempt to annihilate the opponent.But if not once after this war the proof would be given that no war of aggression can be provoked without punishment and that political systems with nacisti-