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

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188,) they would be abused, easily leading to disintegration, anarchy, even the overthrow of democracy - and have often led to it. There are usually no such perfect masses of people, so educated and so mature politically and morally, nor are there so ambitious and mature leaders who know how to bring the principles of democracy to the fore in political life in all their purity and complete commensurateness, thereby also the sociologists so far, above all others, justify the so-called sovereignty and crises of democracy. They have thus touched on one of the four problems of democracy; the relation of the broad masses of people in democracy to the political parties, to the leaders and to the general political leadership, and the question of the so-called oligarchy in democracy Every free society produces in its political, economic, social and cultural activity groups of people who have common and identical interests and identical views about them. The democratic regime can and must drive a social, economic, cultural policy by negation of these organized groups. As far as political life is concerned, these groups organize themselves in democratic society as political parties. The organization of political parties is an essential part of any democratic regime. However, every political camouflage needs leadership and organisation, as well as the Kanpf and the Physical War of Rihrer, officers, non-commissioned officers and a