NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96 Page 216 · 216 of 272
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96
English Translation
213.) visions that were planned only for the purpose of eliminating influential people or discrediting an opposing party. We know from the history of the politico-political parties pro- cesses created by artificiality, which should serve party purposes and which certain parties should sacrifice a number of innocent heads; we know agent-provocateurs, instigated assassinations and really committed crimes by certain people to their own comrades, in order to make this a pretext for the destruction of a hated party. It may not have to be added that this psychology of bad democracy and the sole party system is above all a psychology of its press, the press of a party tends to be as the party itself is: in it the activity of the party is best reflected, it is its representative, its embodiment, its expression. We are all determined by their modest influence precisely because behind it we believe the power of the Parzei, a large part of the so-called public opinion, of a large whole, therefore the press is the most terrible weapon in the political party struggle. It is enough that the opposing press brings a false message before a so-called vote, election, public action, which throws the enemy's most so-damaged guilt into the picture - and the idea that here not one single person speaks, but many individuals, the public opinion embodied in the newspaper and the mass soul, has an eye-catching effect on each individual