English Translation

- 4 - 46 Moravian Ostrava and Mistek: 1.) Historical: Until 1918, the area belonged to the Crown Land of Moravia of former Austria. 2.) National political: The area is inhabited by Germans, Czechs and Poland. 3.) Economic: Industrial and agricultural structure. Above all, the steel industry, with about 15,000 frontier commuters from the government district Trop- pau. The steel industry has its best mines in the Teschener Land and together forms an economic unit, with its permanent and most important customers of the industrial products lying in the administrative district of Troppau. (e.g. Nesselsdorf, Branka, Stramberg, etc.) 4.) Administratively: : The same applies here as for the Teschener area. Consequences: 1.) From the historical tradition and the political tradition of the Sudeten German party, which decisively determined the struggle in the Teschen region in recent years, the SuDetengau (government district of Troppau) must rightly be addressed as the territorial heritage of the old Kronland Austrian Silesia and therefore claim the territory of Teschen-Bielitz for itself. 2.) The strong Germanism in the Regierungsbezirke Troppau, whose Volkische Energie has become free by the establishment of the Protectorate and the thereby given stabilization of the German-Czech people's border, can guarantee a continuous increase to the German linguistic islands and the German People's Border can, favored by these circumstances, be carried in broad form to the East. This strong popularism alone is in the position of the German mark