English Translation

45 - 7 - must be led by the last little man of the German people, decisive will be the attitude of the last German man, the last german woman in the people's community. The attitude of peoples in the Sudetengeu and in the protectorate must change completely. In the past we had to pursue a defensive policy (maintaining our peoples, our economy, our cultural interests). Today we have to change, because we are Germans who want to win the space; today we must work offensively. The scattered Germans in the Protectorate must also be clear about this. And we need to help him maintain his offensive stance. In former times we Sudeten Germans turned to Berlin in our needs and only National Socialism made it possible for us to find willing ears there, We were used to thinking small-mindedly and therefore all tasks seemed huge, because we, 3 V2 million Germans, faced 7 million Czechs. Today, however, we are fighting as an outpost of the Great German people, today we have all the strength of the Empire behind us. In the past, we have tried to collect the solution in the short term. We saw everything at that time at short notice, everything had to happen tomorrow. Today we have time. We can see in this area a little longer term. It is not necessary to do everything from today to tomorrow. We used to think quantitatively, i.e., we were primarily concerned with keeping a corresponding number of Germans. We were interested in having a German mayor in predominantly German municipalities, in maintaining the number (quantity is equal to quantity) of German residents, in not reducing the number of schoolchildren. We no longer need this quantitative method of denunciation today and we must not follow it either. It is not a question of devising a policy which brings the Czechs to us in mass, but we only have to regard as belonging to the German people, which represents a certain value, we must -8 -