STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1983, sig. 109-6/75

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114 - 2 - Outline An important task, which has only been begun by a German, is the clear political orientation of the life-style covered. Germanism and the elaboration of a clearly German lifestyle. The Germans of this area have not only participated in the separation of Germanism within the whole empire as members of the Austrian state in the last centuries, but have still been restricted in the past two years to the narrow space of the Czechoslovak state. Introduce them into the great stron of the general German experience already means a considerable task, which is strengthened in its requirement by the fact that a special political task of a great extent in the Bohemian-Moravian space is immediately placed on this interpretum. It is therefore particularly urgent that Germanism, which here lives and works only in islands, groups or even isolated in Slavicism, shows a clear lifestyle and a political attitude, which corresponds to the national socio- and its coming world position, and forces the Czechs to be able to do so and awaken in them the desire to be included. Any politically sensitive person who has come from the North German history circle into this landscape will have realized to what extent this force for the development of his own lifestyle, which has also been recognized and widely accepted by other peoples, represents an ongoing achievement of Austrian history. Today's principles of life will in some ways be different from the basics of the German way of life at that time, they will have to give expression to the serious force of action, the masculine and comradely bond in performance and life that are alive in us today. Danger of its own- In the task of "approaching the Czech rule of the same", we must bear in mind that the Chechnya circuit has historically developed an unusual and unique force within Slavicism, strong cultural and economic influences from outside.