English Translation

cermnr car cmne a 6 essant is that the Czechs stated in their remarks that there were also unilingual jurisdictions in Moravia (12 German, 57 Czech, 8 mixed). On 14 October 1902, Prime Minister Koerber once again brought to the attention of the general public about the regulation of the language question. It stated that the districts should be separated as monolingual as possible; internal and external official language of monolingual authorities is only the language of the district. In a draft language set of 3 February 1909, 137 Czech, 94 German and 5 mixed-language judicial districts (Brüx, Budweis, Dobrzan) were created. It is of course not our task here to explain in detail how these compensatory negotiations, from which we reported excerpts, went, and why they failed. In this respect, reference can be made to the book 'The Nationality Right of the Old Empire', which was published by the author of this essay. We have only to show that a closed language area existed so undoubtedly that, to an increasing extent, the government, even the representatives of the Czech parties, could not completely ignore it. When the Czechs were offered the temporary opportunity to repeat the attempt to break out of the German habitat, which this time lasted only 20 years, they included, as already stated above, the entire Germandom of the countries of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia in their new state, also the area undoubtedly belonging to the closed German folk soil. In so far as they were concerned for Bohemia only the geopolitical and historical facts; but they did not take them into account at all in the expansion they gave to their state in another direction, especially not in the fact that they leaned on the foreign Western powers. The national rights of the Czechoslovak Republic, which, according to its composition, was once again a multi-ethnic state like the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, did not take into account the closed German settlement area in any way and did not give on the other hand the German population any real human rights of ethnic groups. The Germans in this state, mainly Sudeten Germans in the broad sense, therefore felt in their forced struggle for their peoples only the more than a single ethnic group, both within their state and within their nation. As far as Sudeten Germans were concerned in the broad sense of the word, the members of the countries of Bohemia, Moravia and, in a certain sense, Silesia, the hundreds of years-long separation with Czechism had undoubtedly shaped their Antlits.