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

124.) the majority population, terror, murder, mass robbery and with the help of German troops, as happens today in Poland, Tsohechoslovakia, Norway, Belgium, Holland, South Slavia, Greece, etc., each state will be responsible for its own quislings. Until all this is done, until each state has ensured that its minorities will no longer be a revolver against its state existence, new measures will be taken to protect loyal minorities, to secure their political and cultural rights, but on the basis of absolute reciprocity. It is not possible to once again see an abnormal state of privileged minorities on the one hand and constantly oppressed minorities on one side, just as one can not create a condition in which individual smaller states always live under the terror of larger states, just because they comprise smaller parts of the population who speak the language of the larger states. That is why we can still make a final proposal today to resolve the problem of minorities in detail. There are only three general principles: 1) Even after this war, Buropa will not be able to see homogeneously national states, for there are skins in which some countries, as states, could not exist at all without certain parts of mixed society.