English Translation

30th German territory with its terrible impact on the health and biological power of our ethnic group, became a valuable helper of this development goal. The rich words of the President of the Republic about the solution of the national question by biological development received a grey background and had to fill every thinking Sudeten German with bitterness. Still in his speech on 28 October l935 - the first German speech - the then Foreign Minister Dr. Benesch no word about the domestic solution of the national question. It did not seem to exist for him despite the close connection with foreign policy. Thus Konrad Henlein turned to the 9th century. In December 1935, in the public sphere, the guarantors of the peace treaty forced their eyes on the unresolved problem and on the negation of the contractual obligations and their impact on the existence of the most demeaning minority in Central Europe. A few weeks later, on 23 February 1963, the leader of our movement, in his speech on culture in the German House in Prague, shows the fundamental position that we occupy in the most important questions of our cultural life, thus ending the first part of our fundamental explanations. The internal and external political situation soon afterwards will no longer allow our opponents to remain silent, but will require them to comment and answer. We have finally become the driving force behind domestic and external politics in our state for both the Czechs and the government activists. Through our fundamental legal struggle and through our constant control of public life, we force the activist Germans and the Czechs to finally admit the existence of the problems and to deal with them: the German question becomes the central point of all speeches and political events in the state. Perhaps the first signs of attention and consideration of the situation created by our political work up to this point in time can be seen as the President's remark in his radio address for the State Defence Bond on 4 June 1986, "Czechoslovakia will always keep the word" Also the radio address of Dr. Hodža on the same occasion on 1 June 1986.