STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2487, sig. 109-12/134

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48 - 10 - "Swimming wood". We of the party are responsible for keeping Germanism clean of these elements. On the problem of mixed marriages, we would say the following: We know how difficult we have to carry on mixed marriage. In the Sudetengau we have an estimated more than 40,000 mixed marriage--. The mixed-völkish marriage is always a danger, that from it an unstrengthened folkdom proceeds. Many of these people lack the German mother. Although these people also, in order to oversound their inexplicability, occur today radical mixed-volkish marriages are unbearable and must be prevented. Especially dangerous are mixed-Volkish weddings of German soldiers. Not the best Czech girls seek connection to the German soldiers. This is a great danger for the German people from a racial point of view, because the mixture brings about an unstrengthened people. Descendants of mixed marriages tend again and again to marry people from an alien people. The popular struggle is to be contested by the German authorities. But in this struggle the attitude of the last German man, the last woman, is of great importance, Masaryk said that the Germans are colonists in this country, that is, he called them strangers. This country is an ancient German habitat, ancient German territory and we are trying to regain this space to our German homeland." The lecture Ing. Künzel's vurde with general fri- ness was recorded and, in contrast to the lecture Dr. Adolf's, was much easier for some of the present. The economic policy meeting was continued without a break after the meeting of the Oberlandrat, Oberregierungsrat Kl o s e , Kreisleiter W o 1 1 n e r and the Lt-General H e r m n n n . He pointed out that he was the councillor of a city that lost its entire hinterland after the border between the Sudetengau and the Czech Republic.