STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2689, sig. 109-12/337 Page 28 · 28 of 25
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2689, sig. 109-12/337
English Translation
255- The result of this period, which lasted until 1926, is a constant loss of Sudeten Germanism in all its areas of life of enormous masses./A new period of nationalism led his countrymen to the entrance of two, at that time comparatively strong, German parties under the motto "Equals among equals". This entry into the government and the transformation of a part of the Sudeten-Germanism into activists took place without any consideration. It is without doubt that the front of our defense and our struggle for the right was relegated to a stage. On the German and Czech side, the possibility was created to change all previous wrongs. But what was soohah in reality? With the greatest hope the activist parties went into the government in confidence in the effective state insights Švehla without prior definition of a program. Švechla, however, becomes ill and leaves the political event long before his death. The following Czech governments do not grasp the possibility of making real valuable contributions to the domestic satisfaction and development of the state. The German government parties, however, in which/Ánswisoher/Christian Social were exchanged by the social democrats, struggle with ever closer scope for close-hearted party and standing interests and forget more and more about their duties towards their own people. The debt account of the/ewe/ German ministers is getting bigger and bigger. As "equal among equals", Germanism continues to lose rights and acquis on a daily basis. This inability and the often visible lack of will to protect the German rights of Huayseum is expressed in only some of the laws which threaten the German existence, which the active German parties have opposed since l926: year after year they give their consent to the state proposal with all its injustices and violations of the minority*. State law against us Germans. The "ground reform" already decided on by the government before the adoption of the German parties, which was attacked, continues in this period of time and has a denationalising effect on the Germans. All the serious consequences of denationalisation