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58 2 Published in the magazine "D e r W e g " , January issue 4th issue 1932, episode 1 Rudolf Staffen : Die sudetendeutsche Gestaltung aus den Landschaftlichen Einheiten. The SudetenGerman ethnic group has the task for the total German language to fulfil the task of asserting itself and its area of settlement and, in addition, to bring its forces to fruition in the given space. In order to fulfil its task , it shall be responsible for the structure and structure of the task . It is now to be investigated in which way the sudetenGerman ethnic group has to divide its settlement area according to the given task and to shape its structure from landscape units, namely under the present conditions, thus seen from the inside, and not from the entire German folk soil and its limbs. The settlement area . The SudetenGerman settlement area is a curved , in some cases already broken , L a n d s t r e i f n of un - uniform width , which several language islands are upstream and which in its porm corresponds to an open circle ring . Characteristic for each circular settlement strip is its Mit e l p u n k t s l o si g k e i t . The SudetenGerman settlement area has no total center in the settlement area itself. The R a u m m i t el- p u n kt is Prague, just as the center of a circle ring is always the centre of the surrounding circles outside the same. However , the Sudeten-German settlement area has a number of Landsehaftsmi t e l points , some of which are of particular importance for the entire settlement area . These are the D o p p e l - m i t e l p u n k t e of the Elbe and the Jeschken - Iserland , formed by the neighbouring cities of Teplitz-Schönau with Aussig and Reichenberg with Gablonz . The areas of influence of some central cities stand out in the form of more pronounced landscapes , which usually also form an integral part of traditional and traffic geography . In general , however , only those groups around the district towns are , in the mountainous areas , often only the even smaller , agricultural units settled in . As a result of the generally rather unfavourable settlement situation, numerous obstacles and difficulties arise for the summary and design of the Sudeten-Germanism to a resistance-able F r o n t which is a prerequisite for the desired unity of will.