STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 283, sig. 109-4/25 Page 18 · 18 of 29
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 283, sig. 109-4/25
English Translation
- 9 - and guidance. However, it ensures and makes it much easier to carry out a planned process of popularism. In all popular policy measures, it is necessary to specify for which groups this and that measure is intended in essence. 3) Depoliticization - Calming The last 50 years before the World Wars have increasingly politicized life in the Bohemian-Moravian region.A high tension of political nature, never known in history, has brought with it the former Czech-Slovak Republic and, more recently, the change of relations after March 5, 1939. A calming, as in the Baroque period in the country, is necessary in order to achieve a political assimilation of the Czechs first through the ideas of the Empire. The political will follow a Völki- sche assimilation by means of the "guided natural selection" in order gradually, as it were, to achieve the Germanization of the entire space. This process, like any growth process, does not take place from today to tomorrow. The following principles for neutralization must be observed: 1. The most necessary measures and interventions must be carried out in the best possible way so that they do not cause any concern. If they are unavoidable, the appropriate propagandistic counter-effect, in particular an easy-to-understand justification, must be used to compensate for this. Various means can be used. It is better to direct public opinion in a certain direction by a keyword than to leave it unaffected. This also applies to economic measures of all kinds which, for example, were taken away for some kind of political reason. It would be possible, for instance, to face the great concern caused by the removal of the Wischauer and other troop training places by pointing out the reason for the resettlement. If the way through the press has to be avoided from certain tactical considerations, a corresponding whisper propaganda could also be staged. It would probably succeed in the chosen example in the interest for military things. 2. Generous relief and detoxification of the anosphere. 15-9-907