STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2560, sig. 109-12/20

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93 - 3 - When I refrain from describing the individual phases of heavy political pressure and persecution to which Germanism was exposed in Bohemia and Moravia during the years of struggle, one thing should be mentioned: to separate the Germanism of this space spiritually and ideologically from the kingdom. Also in the fact that the Benesh system has made this attempt at all, there is a proof of its inability, because the hope of success could only have been a blinded one. And yet today we must not ignore the dangers that threatened the Germandom of Bohemia, and the feits of Moravia, through efforts in this direction of the purest Prague ruler daektem. Such an attempt had already been made in the intellectual history of this space. An important Mason named Born, at the end of the 18th century, had made an attempt to cultivate a "Bohemian Enlightenment" in order to oppose the new direction of the Enlightening, which flows across the borders of the Reich, a separatist direction of thought modified to Austrian-Bohemians for political reasons. Had a success then been failed by the fact that Napoleon's hunger for power wiped out any separatism that was also committed and led all German tribes to unity, the analogue, but more pitiful, failed. Verşuch Benesch's racial insidiousness and the political maturity of the combat-acquired Germanism in Bohemia and Moravia. Today, as we celebrate for the 9th time that memorable day and for the second time this is in the midst of the gigantic confrontation of a dying world with the young, socialist nations, the comparison with that at that time pushes us from itself. Like the former Czech rulers, as well as their political teachers and fellow believers in Western democracies, not the flame signs of the times, which have recognized torches of January 30, 1933, too, elevated circles of Czech intelligence do not want to recognize the signs of this wrestling of two worlds.