English Translation

144 PZD Press Inbrmation Service. February 14, 1939. The "Národní Politika" deals with the relationship of the Czechs to the German ethnic group in Czechoslovakia in an editorial which represents some progress towards the last opinion of the paper insofar as this time the paper fails to give in the role of an Mmmimm mentor. In the Republic, about 200,000 Germans remained in the Czech territory, which are so strongly mixed with the Czech population that it was not possible to think of their connection to Germany. The voices that spoke of a population exchange were silent, which would have resulted in the liquidation of the German ethnic group in the ČsR. And so today we are faced with the fact that the Czech population has to expect that it will continue to live with a large group, the Germans, who are scattered among the Czechs, have become aware that their fate is now closely linked to the fate of the Czech people. The paper then gives a brief historical outline of the development of German-Czech coexistence and says that the first twenty years after the overthrow were a kind of reaction to the past, because it was not possible to eliminate at first glance all the bitterness that accumulated in the Czech hearts in the pre-war years and during the war. In addition, the unfortunate fact that the average of the Czech people approached the politiso unprepared came. As such an unfortunate grit of further German-Czech relations could not actually expect any other conclusions we experienced. Today we stand on the threshold of the in which we no longer mere spectators, but also