STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1854, sig. 109-5/82 Page 7 · 7 of 147
A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1854, sig. 109-5/82
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2/20 of the various problems that have been touched on. These are to be discussed more closely in our circle by further lectures. Gentlemen! They are mostly men of action and have certainly already formed your own thoughts about what you as Germans are observing here. Of course, these are often individual observations and who today has the need to summarize studies in the gigantic world event in which we participate! A mere suggestion is one deit? more accessible. I myself have put together the thoughts that I want to develop here on my estate in the Sudetengau on quiet evenings without having literature or other sources of assistance at hand. Perhaps, however, my remarks will be all the more immediate for this very reason. Above all, I would like to stress very strongly that it would not be right for the new additions to our countries today to make definitive judgments on the Czech peculiarity, which is now being asserted, sometimes in an unhealthy way, in individual cases. It would not be a matter of wanting to disregard what extraordinary times the Czech people now have to dive over and how difficult it is for some people to find their way of life. In addition, there is the influence of a mixture of teachings that have worked through 20 years, the loss of a leading position, existential concerns, the search for culprits that have caused the previous failures and the longing for a Europe that is just for all peoples. It would be a banality to begin with an enumeration of good property of the people to which I belong, because the leader of the German people himself has shown the diligence, the intelligence and the sense of order and the cleanliness of this people, which are already noticeable in his settlements. I must continue to make up for it and briefly go into the 1000-year history, which, in addition to the congenital housewives,