English Translation

031 The Czechs and_we._ In order to thoroughly discuss this century-old problem, it is necessary to go a little further. Even today, the Czechs still claim that they were oppressed in the old Austria and that, if we complain today, they only retaliate for that past time, as it were. Let us now examine the conditions in the old Austria, as far as they are possible with regard to the Czechs. It may be true, if even then the expansion of the Czechs into the German territory of the Sudetenland was opposed to a certain resistance, for example, so that in the different cities of Deutsch-Böhmen they were not granted the desired or demanded schools at 5 - 10% of the population without further admission. But for this they were within Bohemia, i.e. in the closed Czech language areas the unlimited lords, who let themselves be talked about there by n i m a n d e n a little. It was e.g. It is quite inconceivable that the then central authorities say that after Tábor or Čáslau a German postal or railway official would have sat down, because 1./ there appeared no need for there and 2./ one would have felt this on the Czech side as pro-vocation. The man would have been made so hot the ground that he would soon have disappeared. How much the Czechs already felt in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire when the Lords in Bohemia, it is clear from how often the street was made mobile against the Germans in Prague and how often German students were beaten up by the Czech, although Prague was the capital of the country, i.e. also the headquarters for the German territories. In connection with this unconditional rule of the Czechs in the then Czech region of Bohemia, I ask the older contemporaries of the German and Czech tongue what would have happened to the members of a German gymnastics or protection association if they were at the moment