English Translation

39 - 3 - the old German imperial castle could look at the one hundred towered Prague, built in its most beautiful buildings by German masters. When we speak of German Prague, we think of the great past of this city, which at times played a decisive role in German imperial history, and so we think about the population census of the year l847, according to which in official figures in this year in Prague 66 046 Germans and only 36 687 Czech people lived, so that at that time Prague was still two-thirds German. At all times, the Czechs have received the decisive elements of culture and civilisation from the German people and from German culture. Besides the geopolitical and strategic necessities, the cultural-civilist ties and conglomerations have remained the decisive factors for the membership of Bohemia and Moravia in the empire to this day. In addition, we Germans in Bohemia and Moravia love this beautiful country just as much as we use it for ourselves as our heirs from the ancestors, like the Czechs. If we explain today that the reintegration of the old Reichsland into the Great German Reich from now on is unchangeable and indefensible for all times, this is a fundamental fact for us, which we take deeper. Nothing can prevent us from doing so. But apart from the historical past, we derive the right to do so from our deep and honest conviction that, under Adolf Hitler, we want and must finally resolve the problem of this area, which in recent decades had become a hotbed of fire in Central Europe through the constant struggle for popularism, to the satisfaction of both nations and in the interests of a permanent European peace. Versailles and St. Germain did not create an order in Europe and, above all, they did not bring peace to Bohemia and Moravia and to the peoples who live here. The so-called "peace treaties" wanted the old German Reichslande