English Translation

I. THE RESTORATION OF THE SEDETENLAND Today's Sudetenland region was part of the state territory of the Czechoslovak Republic between 1919 and 1938, and with parts of its present territory it belonged to two of the four countries in which this unnatural and unhistorical state was divided: Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia. But precisely because it was an unnatural and anti-historical state, the view into the distant past must turn back if the problem which the German Reich faced in 1938 is to be understood, when the Sudeten-German territory under the Munich Agreement of 28 March 1938, was to be solved. September of this year was removed from the structure of the said State. With this historical Rükblick, which is of course limited to the most essential, since the German-Czechoslovak problem can only be treated in its entirety in connection with the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, we can leave Slovakia and the Karpatho-Ukraine (Karpathorußland it was called in the Czechoslova kei) completely aside, since they had never been in a closer connection with Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia before Versailles. In Bohemia and Moravia, which formed the core of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, Germanic and Slavic have met for millennia. These countries were settled by Celts before the beginning of the Christian era and afterwards by about half a millennium Germanic (Mar-Komannen, Quaden) before in the enormous movements of peoples around the turn of antiquity and modern times, namely in the 6th century. After a great empire built under a Frank Samo had disintegrated in the first half of the 7th century, one of the Slavic tribal rulers, the Przemyslids, the Slavs in Bohemia, and since 1029 their rule extended,