English Translation

- 18 - IV. The eastern border belt, in the former Polish border area and in the territory of the Slovak border, i.e. in the districts of the Vberland Councillors Moravian Ostrava and Zlin, which are also to be addressed as special German interests for reasons of securing this border, it will be essential for the work of the people to expand certain important places and cities into bases of Germanism. As such, I see the cities of Moravian Ostrava, Friedek, Friedberg, Wsetin, Otrekowitz, Ung.Hradisch and Göding. The population of this border belt is essentially composed of Wallachians and Moravian Slevaks, both Wolks-Stämmer, especially the Moravian Slovaks, already at the time of the independent Czech state have attached importance to the preservation of their national and cultural peculiarity and showed a certain resistance to the own Czechs and their methods of Czechization. It will be the task of German politics to promote and strengthen these tendencies towards self-employment and the preservation of cultural peculiarities and to make the border population, which also, especially the Slovaks, have racially valuable components, more and more "rich" as far as possible. The more the German bases are expanded and enabled to take the lead in this direction by installing suitable forces, the more it will be possible to implement this policy. By the way, the cities I have mentioned also have special significance and important tasks in various other respects, such as economic and military areas. About Moravian Ostrava with its about 32,000 Germans, its position as an important industrial location and its strong German garrison needs nothing more to say. The two towns of Friedek and Friedberg, which are close to each other, also deserve greater attention in terms of their still very small number of German population due to their location, their industry and their German garrisons.