STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2646, sig. 109-12/294 Page 9 · 9 of 31
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2646, sig. 109-12/294
English Translation
8 -2 specialists have been designed in those years. We remember the Czech Grand State, as it was depicted on the famous Europalarte of Hanusch Kuffner: on the west and south-east # Regensburg, Passau and Linz were included in the Czech Glacier, in the east and north the Czech sphere of power surrounded Wroclaw and Kottbus and reached to the vicinity of Frank furt/O and to the outskirts of Berlin. This glacis was to be secured by an apron whose borders ran in the south along the Drava River and in the north on the Baltic Sea and Elbe estuary, because they could not be pushed forward further. The memory of these high-rise airlocks of the actors of a historical interlude appears to the viewer, who today enters the Czernin Palace, like a curious dream. All of this was so far from any political reality, so vague, eloquent and historyless that it is difficult to imagine how, for twenty years, European politics could be confused by such illusions. Today, the Czernin Palace is the seat of the office of the Imperial Protector for Bohemia and Moravia. Here now acts as Secretary of State Karl Hermann Frangk, an old leader of the sudeten- Seglh German people. In his youth, he has experienced the Czech autonomies with all the fierce struggles, experienced the effects of Verşailler politics in the Bohemian = Moravian region in all phases, and has spent many years as a member of parliament in Prague (in that Frinlan time Parliament sitting opposite, dls the phantasmagorie cschechi- with sheer grand power politics with everything that belonged to it, the twicked paöktsystemér and the silent war of extermination against