STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1653, sig. 109-4/1408

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If it were possible to experiment in the field of state politics, then the following attempt would soon bring forth the Czechs' attitude towards the Germans: Put a large glass bell over the Czech and Germans of the Protectorate, allow the Czech to organize and arm themselves according to their own wishes, and transfer Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht out of this space. I am convinced that this attempt would end with the fact that the Czechs would plunge themselves with an unimaginable hatred of everything that is German, to eradicate anything that is only related to Germanism. But that would not be a "fight of freedom", but the struggle of two worlds against each other, which in their nature and nature must be hostile to each other.The above-mentioned attempt would also clearly show that the Czech is the attacker.The Czech runs, while the German in the safe sense of his superiority to an attack against Czechism no longer The fact that the German considers police measures to be sufficient in the Protectorate for this purpose is indicative of the factual attitude of the German, who knows no hatred towards the Czech, but knocks on him there, where he does not agree with the state-needed loyalty. Even Sudeten Germans, who have every reason to do so, do not feel any sense of revenge or hatred against the Czechs today.The Czech does not believe and understand that.If the German fights and strikes, he always does so to preserve and protect the kingdom.He fights out of the most positive attitude that is possible at all.He struggles to preserve the Czech. For more than a hundred years, he has learned to fight the forces that sustain the state and to forget that a struggle loses its meaning if you don't know what you're fighting for.The Czech does not admit it.He claims to fight for his "freedom"."Equality and fraternity" he does not say.But "liberté,fraternité,egalité" belong to the Den- The Czechs are inseparable from each other and are the shortest expression of their mental attitude, which, in other words, could be termed hopelessly "democratic". St. S.TV 0-4/41.