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

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121.) that our minority policy was always supported by the principles of loyalty, tolerance, objectivity and good will. Parts of the German and the Magyarisoh minority, however, in an incredible way abused the equality which the Republic granted them, for their destruction within and for denigration. Germany and Hungary gave money for this. In the name of the so-called minority sovereignty and respect for the foundations of democracy, the Tsohe Choslovak Republic had to tolerate the dangerous anti-state poisoning carried out by the Henlein press and subversive tendencies spread at German universities and other schools in our area. Until Minchen, our endeavour to fulfill the minority obligations to the last letter was absolutely nichk due 1). The opposite of the disloyal minorities, however, aroused the opinion in Europe that the 1) It was only when today's war began when one saw what Henlein, Trank et al. In Hitler's plans for the disintegration of the republic, when one understood the meaning of the quielling in today's war and when one saw by name what the Germans are doing today with the Germanization in Tsohechoslovakia, our politics in England and America and throughout the world was fully recognized and appreciated and is today our great moral and political power.It will be one of the main reasons that Minchen will be completely lifted and a stronger Czechoslovak is built.