STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 35, sig. 109-1/39 Page 19 · 19 of 26
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 35, sig. 109-1/39
English Translation
In my view, it would be appropriate to leave the Upper Land Councils as supervisory observers until the new administrative car has come into existence to some extent. On the other hand, I think it is unacceptable in the long run to maintain the Upper Land Councils only because of this, so that they can make observations and give advice. An extremely important problem in the DAS Land of Moravia is the question of which policy has to be adopted towards the people of foreign languages. This problem is becoming increasingly urgent and can hardly be postponed to the post-war period in its entirety. Moravia, as is well known, had the strongest ties to the bordering German language regions, especially to the city of Vienna in the south, until the creation of the Republic. The process of Czechization was therefore much slower here than in Bohemia, and the degree of ugliness in the struggle for popularism was never reached there either. The racially particularly valuable tribes in Moravia, such as the Hannaks and Slovaks, had a natural aversion to the inferior Bohemia when caring for their own Stanmesstolze, which had moreover been disguised as lying and profitable. In addition, there was the presence of an atarken German blood attack, which can be found up to the village population. Czech Bohemianism has therefore always seen itself as a special effort to push forward Czechization in Moravia. Since the 1990s, there have been systematic Czech intellectuals in Moravia who have been engaged in the political struggle there and who had to raise the necessary aid organizations such as Sokol and Národní jednota. This was particularly successful in the Republic, where the links with Vienna 06154