English Translation

4-21 Final remarks 37 12. 11. 1938 (RGBl. I 1581). A series of regulations which do not constitute an extension of Reichsrecht to the Sudetenland, but in connection with this gain their full understanding, was already mentioned in the above-mentioned overview (cf. p. 27 et seq.). (see above, p. 26), of which we have come to know an important example in the discussion of church tax (cf. above, pp. 24), quite apart from the party law that we have already touched on above, pages 21 et seq. The fact that cine was able to carry out such an enormous transformation of the entire legal life almost smoothly is proof of the high efficiency of the persons entrusted with the administration and administration of justice in the new Reichsgau on the one hand, but also of the fact that the planned activity of the Reichsmitden natural development tendencies of the new integrated people's part and area meet. The fact that, on the other hand — and this is also of fundamental importance — the enormous extent of this right-wing activity has not been taken in a systematic manner is the result of various examples. It is no less important that, just as in the Ostmarkgauen, to mention a particularly eye-catching example, the General Civil Code, which is still in force here and there, has been left in force, while in some other areas the pace of approximation of the law in the Reichsgau Sudetenland is more rapid than in the East Markgauen. With regard to the General Civil Code, it is probably difficult to say that it contains legal ideas which will perhaps be more prominent in the drafting of the People's Book than some of the regulations of the German Civil Code. Most of what has been done has been carried out during one of the most important wars in world history, which will give Europe a new face. Some details in the divisions, arrangements and procedures will no doubt be changed in the course of the reconstruction after the war, some others only reveal its deepest meaning in the face of it. The last word about what the integration of the Reichsgaues Sudetenland in this more than secular view means will only be able to be spoken after the victory, if not only the new state order, but also the new people's order, which is expressed in it, becomes fully visible (cf. my book "Volk und Staat im Wandel deutscher Fates", p. 220).