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

254.) in the name of freedom and freedom of persuasion, the decomposition of the state and the national society. The annexers of the fixed central power in the democratic regimes, especially to the extent that they gather in certain centralist parties which have the natural partial tendency to concentrate as much power and influence as possible in their central partisan power apparatus, respond rarely regularly to these atomizing tendencies, precisely on the contrary, by oversized Emphasis of centralization and, in their agitation, in exaggerating the potential danger of democratic atomization of state administration and power, they do not always understand the bold synthesis between the degree of state unity and the level of state decentralization, therefore the problem of centralisation and decentralisation is one of the most important Difficulties of any democratic regime, and its correct solution after the present war, will also be a condition for the rebirth of post-war democracy in our country and in other European democracies. The problem of centralization and decentralization of state administration and legislative violence is changing in different states and societies depending on the circumstances, needs and situation of the people and state. The composition of the population, the geographical conditions, the economic conditions, today often also the cultural aspects of the society decide.