English Translation

-10 - 1936 brought remarkable euphoria: "All national minorities should find a permanent, secure shelter on the foundations of national equality ....The peoples are not satisfied with the standards carefully laid down in the paragraphs". In more detail, President Dr. Beneš becomes already in his rallies on the occasion of the trip to Moravia on 15 June 1936. and l6 June l936: "We have the courage to say that many things can and must be improved. I am in favour of the Germans in our republic receiving everything they need for their cultural and economic prosperity." In his reply to the representatives of the large Sude-ten German federations of peoples on 27 March, the President of the State becomes more clear about the current national policy of the state. June 1936: "But we also do not wish for a national cultural struggle aimed at the extermination or narrowing of the opponent, which would disturb the good living together of our peoples." The German activists also realize during this time that silence is no longer gold for them. On 26 April 1986, the Tri-Gestirn d's Jungaktivismus Hacker - Jaksch - Schütz gave fundamental speeches on the German problem and the government's work to date. All three speeches could be held by us in their diction and they also ended without exception in the establishment of untenable defects and fundamental demands: Sudeten Germanism - the most proletarian people of Europe, the natural national federation of workers, peasants, craftsmen and intellectuals, unresolved national question, unbearable bureaucratization, national policy of penetration of the border regions by the Czechs, incomprehension for the legitimate national political demands of Germany, protection of the living space of Sudetens Germans by recognition of the linguistic border, necessity of compensation on the basis of "I Lord, you Lord". In spite of these initial approaches, however, no serious will was shown on the Czech side to stop the offensive against us in all areas and did not seize the repeatedly offered hand. Thus, we had the duty to record our position again at the great meeting of officials in Eger from June 19th to 2nd 1936. In a fundamental speech, Konrad Henlein himself formulated the po