English Translation

49 Answer : The crown witness for the idea of the Empire is actually the history of the Czech people itself; also its recent epoch. They know that, in the past century, contrary to the fact that the Czech people belonged to the Reich for almost a decade, the political doctrine was imprinted on them that the Czechoslovakian could only maintain its national heritage through a permanent position of struggle against Germanism and the Empire. The attempt to achieve this anti-Germanism politically in 20 years' time led to the collapse of the Czech state and inevitably led to a return to the empires, as the present order of the European centre. In general, the change to the idea of the empire does not proceed like a leap in the direction of the economic cycle, but gradually changes, only speaks for the permanence of this reorientation. If, today, Tsd echen may still be distant from the idea of the Reich, this will affect the current political requirements in Bohemia and Mühren, but it is important that these Czechs actively oppose the idea. In Bohemia and Moravia, there are, after all, today a happy number of activists for Daë Reich, sent to the Czech youth. In the four years since the establishment of the Pretektorate, no techeche could pass over the distribution of his affiliation to Reich. I believe I can say with certainty that the Czech worker and farmer, for example, today does not have the feeling of embezzlement with mere lures, but of honest social and cultural support from the German side. There is considerable practical evidence of this in everyday life. As far as the question of the understanding of the masses for the policy of the president of the Steats Dr. Hácha is concerned, I can certainly say that his position in the Czech public is based on an unequally broader basis of trust than ever a politician of the Czechoslovak Republic.