A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2183, sig. 109-9/7

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38 of the Czech Velke and his leading men, Charles the Gressen, began to precede the Frankfurt Natienal Assembly in 1848, generally as well known. From Henry III to the German Confederation, the Czech people had the connection of their homeland with the German Reich with that until the middle of the 19th century. In the 15th and 17th centuries, German-determined Habsburg monarchy was voluntarily enslaved, partly explicitly sought. Even the serious religious confusions in the 15. and 17. Century could only shake this relationship, but could not attack the state-law connection of Bohemia and Moravia with the empire. Even the National Czech King George of Podiebrad perceived himself to be the first Elector of the German Reich. These are historical facts. Other views are based on the historical falsifications that remained unimportant for the history of history or the other Czech gross. If today, gentlemen, after twenty years of unbelievably chauvinistic and brutal anti-German policies of the Benesch era, as far as possible, tried to wipe out the witnesses of a great German past of the countries of Bohemia and Moravia, watchful eyes wander through the settlements and cities of these countries, then you will meet at Schrit6 and step by step the achievements of German settlers and city founders, find everywhere the stone-built traces of German builders, you will have to realize that despite the bloody wars that brewed over the country, and yet the often devastated house had to be rebuilt again and again, the power of the German custom and the German blood could never be broken. You must note that, despite Hussitism and Eduard Benesch, the German forces of design survived even in the deepest of the centuries, until the day when the leader, as the new lord of Bohemia, from the windows