STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1672, sig. 109-4/1427

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6 III. Leaf on the oath of the 22.09.41 concerning M.Vischer "Jan Hus ". The author further misrepresents Charles IV, if he only ever sees the merchant and businessman, e.g. p. 142, and that of the romantic-Slavic Velt alone arrested, eg. pp. 144, 151, 153, 154. The fact that this king-emperor had to an excellent extent seen a new corner of the empire and not only Bohemian, which he also drew on the most outstanding interpretive forces, whose manifestations are still of extraordinary importance for the entire German people and the incomprehensive German culture, is strangely overlooked by the author, who, moreover, endeavours to bring about caterial out of countless works and innumerable magnificences. In this context, for example, I am thinking only of the importance of the German builders, especially Peter Parlers, and of the creator of German written language, Joham von Neumarkt. However, these outstanding German achievements of Karla IV and the significance of Germanism for Frag and Bohemia also had a strong impact on Hus' later times. The author now develops the image of Hus, the selfless and heroic fighter for his Czech Velk, the unique moral preacher of his time against Fapet and Emperor, the champion for the elimination of the existing (German) social order, e.g. p.226, 233, 235, 239, 255. The representation of this Czech fighter can be attributed to the author with a great deal of love - how to show the picture= inserts,-. I also mention the details of this section of my assessment in Appendix I. In this context, I would like to mention that the author draws completely misguided conclusions in favour of Eus, apart from the fact that Techechen against Hus and Germans used for him. For from the fairytale that techehen stood against him, it is no more possible, as from the sad Tateache, which is unfortunately to be noticed again and again, that Germans from lack of political insight or more from an Üpposition to an opponent find nothing for the assumption that Hus was the sameless representative a 1 1 e r, e.g. p.285. In addition to this erroneous basic conception, the book also contains a number of errors and groundless and unrelenting generalizations to Gunats on the other side. I may mention the following from the number of games included in Annex II.