English Translation

22 I would like to say the following to the Germans of this city: "Czech imperialism has, in part, already struck deep wounds in the monarchy, but especially in the last 20 years through its sophisticated methods of Czechization, and with coercion, terror, and robbery has brought misery and misfortune upon us and wronged us. Budweis is a foundation of German trades and peasants at the end of the l3rd century. Budweiz, as a German city, survived the Hussite Wars, under the Husitic King George of Podiebrad, fought off the foreign-völkish attacks and had a German town administration from l468 to l9l8. It has flourished and become happy and still has the character of a German city. Budweis was given the nickname "the all-time faithful" by German kings and emperors and in 1848 the city sent the German deputy Franz Schuselka to the Frankfurt Federal Parliament, where he stood up for a lot of Grossdeutschland. These are historical facts, on which Czech manipulations and census figures can also change nothing and also the cry of the Czech press in the last days and weeks nothing can change. Budweis was a German city and Budwei's will in the future be a German town in the Great German Reich. That is our will. But we are far away from, according to the Czech pattern purely Czech cities 2. To try to Germanize, as it tried repeatedly and demonstrably in Sudeten German cities, when it organized speech choirs during parades like: "Long live the Czech Karlovy Vary or Eger!" And now I would like to use the opportunity to speak from this point also to the Czech side. After a short state bliss, which in the scandal of Verssilles and St. Germain with the help of