STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2689, sig. 109-12/337 Page 29 · 29 of 25
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2689, sig. 109-12/337
English Translation
The "Gevetz über die politische Verwaltung" against which the German social democrats ran shortly before under the leadership of Dr. Czech's storm, is unpretentiously accepted by the German activists and leads to a serious loss in our already shortened self-administration. The "change of the municipal electoral order in the Ge-indenovelle ex lg3s" brings a further significant restriction on civil rights. Circular of the Reichsparteileitung des BdL vom 2l. July l933, which is in our possession, clearly show that the activists were not only unable and unwilling to stand up for the preservation of such general political rights and to fight for it, but that they were obligingly forgotten in the government and in the parliaments for all these policies in order to secure their increasingly weaker positions. This shameless exploitation of a reduction in the rights of all Sudeten Germanism for party purposes is one of the most charakteristic features of the politics of the German activist parties. Finally, this includes the series of laws, prepared according to plan for the Czechs and decided by Aer bishorigon unresponsible snromtrevhinyblefan dantfon Balihitarn, which shift the state power from parliament to government, i.e. to a small group of people, and which seek to gleit the ruling regime with democracy: the Enforcement Law", the so-called "Enforcement Act". "Ueberschutzgesetz" with the uncontrollable effect of the investigation and process technology, the "Party Resolution Law" with its devastating side effects of the dissolution of trade unions and the unprecedented damage to about 70.000 German workers, the „Lex Uhliř", which took the lessons of 160 German children in the mother tongue and gave the authorities the legal handling of the prohibition of German private instruction control, and finally the "State Defence Law" of May l936, which in the end only codified this development. After all, the meaning of this extensive law is nothing other than: "The government can do everything it deems useful and necessary for the defence of the state; the government is entrusted with the implementation of this law." This was another major step towards "authoritarian democracy" and thus for the re-enactment of the Sudeten Germanism with the consent of our activists. The effects of such a design of our internal political relations with the participation of German parties could be