STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 340, sig. 109-4/84

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4h island Biala. The area itself is about 2,300 square kilometres in size and is inhabited by half a million people with a population density of 215 people per square kilometre. 2.) National political: Since the 19th century in the Teschener Land, the German with the Czech and Polish people have been in tough conflict with each other. The broad middle class forms the schlonsacentism, about 300,000 souls, which was claimed for itself by both Polish and Czech agitation, never raised a doubt about its inner connection with the German cultural world. The face of the country has always been German and has been shaped by the work of the Germans from the Sudetenland. Starting with the activity of the Austrian North Rhine-Westphalia, the successful use of sudetendeutsche Kräf te can be traced back to the recent past. Thus, the Sudeten-German party in the Teschen region was able to establish a proven network of organisations that played a decisive role both in the liberation struggle of Teschener Deutschtum, as well as in the political leadership and influence of the Schlonsaken. In any case, the only interrelationships between Sudeten-Germanism and the completely German-set schlonsacentism, human and emotional ties, the dissolution of which is only disturbing in the development process