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

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19.) Fascism is above all, as has just been said, a reaction, a struggle and a negation of all previous doctrines and approaches from the pre-war period and doctrines, and ideas which have emerged or been emphasized and supported by the world crisis. Today's Europe is also ideal in its institutions a work of French and American resolution and of the narrow liberal constitutional institutions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The whole 19th century is a child of the French revolution, which means the humanist philosophy of the i8-year-hundred of the universalist revolutionary Cosmospo litism, which proclaimed the equality of men and the gleiohness of the Vöikers (because of the so-called natural right), the general fraternization, Tolerans and political, economic cultural liberalism, pacifism and the peaceful cooperation of all peoples, mutual understanding and idealistic swarming fir the unity of the world and of humanity. All these ideas are regarded as the last word of human civilization, as the highest degree of moral development of mensohity, as definitive and invariable principles of human development and world culture, as dogmas upon which humanity should and will always be guided. Under these conditions, the whole life of Europe develops in the 19th century and at the end of the first decade of the 20th century reaches the so-called