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

170.) Violence regimes serve and the catastrophe of their fellow citizens and their own states mislead) in a number of states a significant collectivization of the large, namentlioh of heavy industry and some branches of agricultural industry, and forcefully and considerably evokes changes in the organization of industrial and agricultural production at all. Some forms of individual eágentum are automatically transferred into new forms of collective property. These changes cannot yet be seen as economic changes of the individualistic system into socialist. However, since they are a levelling factor, they increase the individual social classes, whose ownership relationships they often even compensate for in the direction of proletarianization and thus have conditions in which structural economic changes are not so painful and easier to bear. Like all wars, the Second World War will bring about attitudes which will make more profound social and economic changes and at the same time enable governments to take measures which, in other circumstances, could not be avoided without serious internal upheavals and political upheavals. On the whole, it will not happen to anyone to this war that it is something revolutionary if the former social and economic class shelters become smaller, if legal borders are to be some kind of