A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2568, sig. 109-12/216

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English Translation

- 19 - Never in history has Germanism destroyed the Czech habitat and plundered and murdered its inhabitants. The German traces in the Sudetenland are cultural monuments and services. These findings may contain bitter facts for the t Czech people, but not unknown. Wenceslas Hanka acted out of her knowledge. It describes Franz Palacky with his reference to the secret poison that is at the heart of the Czech people and that the monk Fredegar reveals as the consequences of sin against blood. To it, through the collapse of the Slavic tribes into the natural German habitat, sin still occurs against the space whose guilt has been attributed to the tragic but unchangeable fate of the Czechs. What is revealed _in the centuries-long course of historical events xiek as a fulfilled law of blood and history is condensed in the will and character of individual personalities. Czech folk history shows an interesting phenomenon which corresponds to the opposition of its two blood elements: at the beginning of the historical development are Wenceslas and Boleslav, in the middle of Hus and Zizka and after another 500 years at the conclusion of Masaryk and Benesh. In each of these men the disparity of their people is effective. At the same time, they become the embodiment of the two effective blood elements. Wenzel sees in the recognition of the German feudal sovereignty and in the return to the German-Abendland cultural world the way out of the turmoil of his country and the possibility for his ascent and his development of power. He is not at all the gentle saint to whom the pious W