English Translation

45 - 2 - it is that which makes it clear to the workers that social improvement is only an apparent one and that in the way of life nothing has improved with regard to the increased prices and the war-related restrictions It is only because the Czech workers so far satisfied with their social situation tend more and more towards political dissatisfaction. While in the past the Czech workers rarely had a strong sense of nationalism, today they develop more and more national consciousness, which makes the Germans not only political opponents, but the national enemy. This tendency is most evident in the words about Germanization and national oppression spread among the working class. In this context, it seems significant that workers encounter and feel suppressed statements about school questions which they have not previously considered as a matter of intelligence. Above all, according to Königgrätz, the respect initially paid to the Germans has greatly diminished. This contempt, from which the German soldier is excluded, is the fault of the Germans themselves, as many Czechs say. The reason is seen above all in the torn-down protection economy, which is often bordering on corruption, referring to the numerous arrests of Reichsangehöigen. In German circles, this guilt is attributed to the loss of reputation in front of all the "great earners" who not only did not offer any understanding to the interests of the people or the measures of war, but even sabotaged them. These experiences, it is often stressed, could also be made in the eastern regions, where the same parents made fighters from the initially German-friendly population with the weapon against the Reich. These facts were not hidden from the Czechs either. Therefore, one should not be surprised if the Czech workers, like themselves,