English Translation

-14 - the entire route is carried out and in some places it is also possible to cover with the deforestation of the wooded areas which are located in the axis of the future motorway. In this preparatory work, the March events of the year 939 affected the smooth running of the work to some extent.With regard to the fact that our country became a part of the empire, it was necessary to adapt the construction and traction choices of the Czech autobahn to the German standards. Although we had a lot of models of the motorways, as they were carried out in Italy, America, Belgium, Holland and elsewhere, we decided already in October l938 that we will use the German model for the construction of our motorway, because we consider the Reichsdeutsche motorways as examples of modern motorways.In addition, the intensive effort made on us, with which the building of the Reich's motorways was opened and continued, made a great impression, because the General Inspector for the German road system, Dr. Todt, in the service of the expansion of the rich German highways, almost the whole apparatus of the empire. Of course, we had to adapt to the conditions and financial possibilities of a small state.In Bohemia and Moravia there are far more complicated geological conditions than in Germany and our area is also relatively much hilly.In addition, we have a soft density of colonization and few major cities and industrial centres.