NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96 Page 48 · 48 of 272
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96
English Translation
46.) national idea then has the tendency to annex all the land, aile territories, on which Germans reside, whether they belong to other states for a long time or politically in the course of later events to the Naohbar states. The idea of popularism also forms the basis of another political idea, the idea of the total, deep, indestructible community of all members of the German people - the national community of the people. The consciousness of the national Community, the awareness of belonging to the coilective, whose members are bound together by what is the characteristic of national "popularity" - i.e. duroh blood and race, soil, language, tradition, culture, art, etc.- this consciousness creates a large national community which consists of all Germans, from all the insolublely connected voicings. The concept of this community, of this collective awareness, goes from the bottom, from the people, and it is a consciousness similar to that which, for example, was best reflected among the soldiers during the war in the common company, which is expressed in the united union of workers, linked by a common interest, in the unified association of students, among members of a labour camp, members of the conspiratorial national society, in associations of young students and young workers, which, in spirit, is and should be aware of