STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2387, sig. 109-12/32 Page 13 · 13 of 56
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2387, sig. 109-12/32
English Translation
4-5. The origin of the Sudetenland, however, was repeated divisions, also over Moravia. The Silesian principalities were only temporarily and very loosely connected with Bohemia and Moravia. Whether or not from the old Teutonicism any significant remnants in the time of the Slavic settlement have been preserved - at least since I1. In the early 19th century, at the beginning, the Przemyslids themselves inspired a new German colonization in Bohemia and Moravia, whereby the Germans particularly populated the mountainous Bohemian peripheral areas and formed the hitherto missing bourgeoisie.The result of the gigantic alteration between the peoples of Europe was therefore that the Czech settlement ground was like a wedge in the German deep, that the latter was cut through by the political borders of Bohemia and Mähren and that, conversely, the Czech settlements ground was interspersed by numerous German ethnic islands and scattered settlements. The facts described above correspond only to a symbiosis between the German and the Czech peoples, namely a genuine symbiosis which takes into account the importance of both peoples and takes into consideration the gap between the geopolitical and the national political realities. In the course of history this symposia was realized in two different basic forms. The first in the Middle Ages was that the Bohemian under a Czech dynasty and also Moravia were included in the German kingdom as fiefs, not only in the Roman Empire, but it should be stressed that since 1180 Moravia was granted as a richly immediate margraviate directly by the German king, i.e. was no longer dependent on Bohemia, and that, on the other hand, the Germans, in particular those in Bohemia, were cleared of a large-scale ethnic group law. After an attempt, carried by a Czech chauvinist movement, which first escaped from the Hussite wars, to break the Czech Republic out of the German habitat in accordance with Poland and Hungary, which for 150 years prevented every prosperity in the heart of Europe, had finally failed with the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620, followed the Habsburg-Austrian solution. It consisted of Böhmen and Moravia (of course also Silesia) being incorporated into the Hapsburg Länderbesits, but without being, as is well known, dissolved from the slowly disintegrating German Reich until its demise and later excluded from the German Confederation. That now in the multi-ethnic empire of the Habsburgs in the contemplation of the peoples on their folkdom, which is precisely through the German Romanticism with