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

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-10 - Yes, for the relationship with France and its future fate, the insight into the basic laws of the new Europe results in a very clear, iron conclusion: what else the peace agreement with France will bring is still unknown and all opinions on this are hardly more than vague assumptions. On the other hand, one thing can already be said with complete certainty today: the French people will either wrestle through and find a true integration into the new order, then it will become object with subject, otherwise inevitably! Finally, if we ask about the relationship with England, the many statements made by the Fiherer may well be understood that the victory of the weapons is no longer a matter of negotiation. This does not mean, however, that the English people should, in principle, be excluded from participating in the new order at all times, provided that, after a German final victory, it would be possible to obtain full assurance that the British people would have to accept the re-order without reservation and abstain from any disturbing influence. After all, the German people have already won many former enemies for themselves and, according to the German racial view, cooperation with the English people should still appear to be correct. The new, some Europe has a well-founded claim to a fair share in the colonial space of the earth. For this purpose, fir Europa is now considered according to its entire situation and its other conditions, of course, Aßrika. Its colonial reorganization and development is therefore one of the tasks of German foreign policy as the last link in the chain. Here, too, the idea of allowing a planned order in the division and administration of this colonial area to take place in the place of the previous, accidental confusion opens up the prospect of unsuspected increase in the possibilities of exploitation success for all involved. The German basic demands of modern-day racial politics are inviolably established here. Infringements against this, as the French colonial policy of the past brought with it the most unfortunate, are once and for all prevented. Furthermore, it is already clear that Africa can only be a living and settlement space for its European Mediterranean neighbours as well as for the whites who have already settled in the south. In any case, German colonies in Africa are fundamentally not to be thought of as a living and settlement space for German people or even parts of the people, but exclusively as an economic additional country, as a land of use. Now perhaps one or the other of you, who seems to be too far-reaching, will think in silence: Yes, for God's sake, what else? To such a question can come an equally prompt, as meaningful answer: No, nothing more! So no Bismarck Archipelago, no Kiautschau, nothing with South America, no a la Empire scattered throughout the world, let alone world domination or something like that!