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

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47 - 5 - The area of Teschen-Bielitz would also be considered as an ancient German cultural ground for the reception of German ethnic splinters to be resettled in particular. 3.) The population of East-Upper Silesia is purely urban and, in particular, industrial in nature and can therefore in no way appear expansive to the rural population in the Teschen-Bielitz area. The same applies to the overall Silesian space, where there is a risk that there will be no German language island Bielitz at all in the foreseeable future, apart from the fact that the highly industrial space with all its urban facilities would not miss its attraction and that a retreat of Polish elements can be expected into the emerging gap. For it is by no means assumed that the middle German or the Upper Silesian farmer has the intention or the possibility to fill the gap. 4.) Similarly, an affiliation to the Protectorate is historically not to be represented, while this solution is strongly to be resisted in a national political sense. For as with 3.) by solving the natural ties between the Sudeten Germanism and the Schlonsaken, which are absolutely German friendly, the danger consists of these 3oo.ooo people to form national-conscious Poles, so in the case of 4.) the strongly inclined water-Polish intermediate layer of the schlonsaks will fall into the Czechization infallibly. 5.) The prerequisite for a economically fruitful connection between Teschen-Bielitz and the government district of Troppau would, however, be the incorporation (at least economically) of the judicial districts of Moravia, which were previously part of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.Ostrava, Mistek, Friedek, Frankstadt and Schles.Ostreau, of which, as already mentioned, Friedek and Silesia, ancient components