STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2192, sig. 109-9/16

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28 ~ 7 - So these are the main foreign policy aspects for the expansion of the Great German Empire as a core, as a center, as the leading carrier of the new order. In the next season - or if one wants to prefer the image of concentric circles and rings - in the next rings are the allied North Germanic countries and peoples. All Germanic peoples of northern Europe, without exception, are to be won under German initiative to a as close and firm as possible and also political summary and cooperation. So to the "Great Germanic Reich". It is decisive that these Germanic nations must be regarded unreservedly as fully authorized, active fellow-bearers. They belong to the family. Here it is particularly true that in all these new endeavours, it is not extraordinary but the true nature of things that is decisive. It is therefore not decisive whether the great Germanic union is found in one case through state treaties with a kingdom, but in the other case under other external forms. Rather, it is only the fact that a firm merger is achieved and ensured. The external form must be adapted to the needs of each individual case, but in this sense also very important again. Because a favorable form will help to disturb an unfavourable one. In fact, it currently looks as if e.g. the differences between Denmark and Norway which exist today with regard to the external form could be thought to be permanent. The next group of the complementary countries of the empire stands in some respects in the sharpest contrast to the Germanic group. In contrast to its active position, the Germani regions of the kingdom could be described as the "passive secondary countries" of the Empire. First of all, these are spaces and populations whose full control is indispensable for the sake of German food freedom, either for reasons of security or for the hostileness of their population or for imperative economic reasons. Öder, however, are areas that would not be viable on their own. This could happen, for example, in the areas of Soviet Russia exposed by any class of leaders. In all these areas, it is quite simple and clear, however, that not only a kind of supreme sovereignty, but even a German non-German population, the administration of the greater or lesser living space, which guarantees public possibility. The classic example of the Protectorate of Bohemia, son