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23 Yearbook of the Imperial Protector -5- 1818 The revolutionary wave also captures Bohemian meals and gains a strongly Czech-nationalist colouring in the Czech Revolution. The Germans, on the other hand, profess to be Frankfurt's Grand German Parliament. For the purpose of crushing the revolution in Prague, the Austrian state power shoots the city for four days. — Emperor Fer- dinand I (1835—1848) thanks his nephew Franz Josef 1. 1866 The more than a hundred-year-old combat Prussia-Austria for the The last Keieg claim to leadership in the German region ends with the victory of Prussia. In Bohemia- The fact that the war events of 1866 mainly take place on Bohemian Moravian soil is primarily due to the military importance of the "Fortress of Bohemia". (Battles at Trautenan and Königgrätz, Praliminarfriede at Nikolsburg, Peace Concluding Prague.) 19. This century is marked by progressive Czechization Full national of the Bohemian-Moravian region. While the Germans are fighting for separation, the Czechs are dominated by a strong offensive will. Politically, the Landtag and the administration of the capital city of Prague offer a better reflection of the conditions. In 1861, the Landtag was created, in the same year, the Czechs took over the administration of Prague. From 1887, not a single German was part of the town council. The Germans fought their predominantly cultural struggle on the ground of self-help. In addition to political, intellectual and social life, even scientific life, also enters the stage of complete national separation. This leads to the separation of an independent Czech university and technical university from the existing joint institutions. In the artistic field, this leads to the creation of a Czech theatre culture of its own and completely separate. In the economic field, the increasing industrialization favours the concentration of large Czech masses of workers at the industrial centres and thus the progressive Czechization of these cities. The language becomes increasingly a political sphere from a means of communication; the various Viennese governments outdo the nature of the question in "language regulations", which are partly strongly anti-German, partly. The history of Bohemia-Mären in the 19th century (especially in the second half) bears all the characteristics of the transition. Austria withdraws from the Reich and, in the subsequent period, increasingly embarks on its original German mission. By consciously playing out the peoples of the monarchy against each other, Vienna's state policy strengthens the aspirations of the non-German nationalities, but above all of the Czechs, in Bohemian Moravian territory. All of this leads to the unstoppable decline of the Habsburg Empire. However, while in the German language area north and south of our area national thinking of the high masses is still being pushed into the background by dynastic interests as well as by blurred liberalism, one begins to gradually become bright in the Sudeten area. — The disintegration of the country and its capital city is also clearly expressed in the construction work. The lack of creative power pushes to misunderstood reference to old models. Nevertheless, German masters fulfil their mission in the time-related context. 1914-1918 Die im 19. At the beginning of the 20th century, the development that began in the 19th century experienced a constant tightening. Masaryk and Benesch begin their foreign activities immediately. While rich German and German-Austrian (and here again sudeten German) soldiers hold the onslaught of the Russian mass armies, who want to push from Galicia into the Höhmisch-Mährische region.The Czechs increasingly fall into sabotage, open treason and both passive and active resistance with the duration of the war. Its political development leads to the demand for a national division of the old double monarchy into a demand for an independent state. Through the death of Emperor Franz Josef L. November 1916, these efforts are given another strong autism, to which neither Emperor Charles nor his governments have grown. The independent Czech state — soon called the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 — was proclaimed in 1938. In part by violence, in part by cunning treaties, the Czechs create German question" a state which geographically includes Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Slovakia and Carpathian Ukraine, but in which they are in the minority compared to the sum of the Germans, Slovaks, Hungary, Ukrainians and Poland themselves. The fiction of a "Chechoslovak State" with a "Czech-Slovak state language" and a centralist administration should help binweg. Despite the protest of the Sudeten Germans, who also claim the right of self-determination proclaimed by Wilson for themselves, the Treaty of St. Germain the Sudeten Germans in this Czech state, to which England and France have placed the main task of being a "dorn in the German flesh", constantly threatening Germany from the south and forming a wedge between Germany and Austria. Just as the Constitution of the Republic is an abolition of Western democracies, foreign policy is also coordinated according to the instructions from Paris and London. Foreign Minister Benesch always strives to play a major role within the Geneva League and unnecessarily involves his state in all kinds of enmities. From the first day, however, the Sudeten Germans are engaged in a planned struggle for denationalization, which is expressed in the disenfranchisement of their language, the oppression of their school system, the dismantling of numerous German officials, the expropriation of German soil and forest and numerous measures hostile to Germany. The suffering of the Sudeten-Germans is exacerbated by the years of the economic crisis (from 1929) even more unceasingly. precisely because their settlement area has been strongly industrialized from the past and the Czechs exploit every public job opportunity for their people. The "Czech" financial capital, which is under Jewish leadership, provides extensive and undisputed preliminary services. While the foreign policy of the Czech state is based on the principle of a permanent encirclement of Germany, internal politics is ideally based on a false doctrine of an eternal struggle between Germans and Czechs. The seizure of power of National Socialism in the Reich initially increases the oppression of the Sudeten Germans. Out of fear, the life and freedom will of the German people in the Empire could also capture the SuDeten Germans, the Czech rulers try to conclude these Sudete Germans from their people in their empire also spiritually fully. Constant efforts by German parties to persuade the Czechs to change their policies remain as unsuccessful as occasional promises made by Czech authorities prove to be empty words. All these conditions are further obscured when after Masaryk's resignation (December 1935) Benesch is elected President of the Republic. Now the Czech state is obviously beginning to prepare for war against the empire, which, in the installation of fortifications at the borders as in the country, in enacting the state defense law and other hostile measures, is preparing for war.