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

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(57.) 1935 - 36) the soaring contours of the whole original theory of German international politics - for purely opportunistic reasons - were somewhat dulled, according to the actual German needs ; so e.g. On the colonial question, it was stressed that colonization was required on the basis of the rights of the great-mesh; other smaller peoples were told that it was not forbidden to denationalize them and that their national community and their "popularity were also respected by German "equal rights", spoke of respect for eternal borders, e.g. In these formulations some contradictions were contained with what had been proclaimed from the very beginning as the original principles of the National Socialist movement. Bs are fbrmulations that require the circumstances of the current practical policy, i.e. oppor- tunisisahe fbrmmulations, since the nature of the doctrine itself, as well as fascism, is based on the fiduciity to adapt to development and the circumstances, it is necessary to regard such rormulation as a time-limited opportunism. As far as these deviations serve the German interest and will benefit the German people, they will apply. Where they will not serve the interest, the pure and fundamental doctrine will be geiten, because it is the only and authentic-isable manifestation of the economic National Socialist movement and revolution and its "world ansoh auung". But it is the duty of the objectivity, even so on the