STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 270, sig. 109-4/12

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- 15 - III. Jglauer Sprachinsel. The paths which Germanism policy will have to take in the countries of Bohemia and Moravia will be very different according to the national conditions of the two countries. It will therefore be the task of German politics to build up a solid partition between the two countries by extending the Jglau language island between the Reich's two borders in the north and south, in order to encapsulate Bohemia as a Czech country in this way and to seal it off against Moravia. in the southern direction one might think of looking for a connection to the area of Neuhaus and beyond to the German areas in Budweis. At the large spatial distance between Jglau and Budweis it will probably be more expedient to consider the idea of indirectly To advance southwards and bring the Jglauer Sprachinsel in connection with the border towns of Datschitz and Jamnitz and thus with the Gau Niederdonau. In what extent will one be able to invoke an active Germanization policy on this line on formerly existing and later lost German ethnicity, needs further clarification. At the moment, the area is almost exclusively Czech, but that in places like Datschitz, Jamnitz and Teltsch Germanism was settled earlier, can be assumed as safe. In this area, too, in the south of the Dglauer Sprachinsel, one will encounter German overlays and a relapse of blood mixture, so that a gradual successful assimilation of a part of the settled population will be possible. The conditions in the Jglauer linguistic island are well known. It is therefore not necessary to make further comments on the way in which popular politics is to be driven forward there, as the next most important task I consider to be that in the language island