English Translation

04 forcibly broke out of connections that have grown in centuries and laid the anti-German conception into the cradle of the unnatural state system created by the l9l8, which Benesch pursued as the only state wisdom until his escape. How derisory it was to believe that 7 million Czechs - surrounded and interspersed by 80 million Germans - could stand in the long run against a strong, vital and superior nation in all areas. The Czech politicians and their state formations had to fail, because they were both constantly a sin against nature and committed and were placed on lies and deceit. It is again being judged today in ignorance of the true conditions and the true situation in the Protectorate abroad, because a few megalomaniac emigrated Czech politicians to the detriment of their people just as l9l7 - 1919 from London and Paris ravaged the world. At the Conference tables in Versailles and St. Germain, foreign statesmen have once been beguiled in embarrassing ignorance of the facts in this area. We will ensure that the future peace treaty will not bear the signature of a Czech emigrant. Believe me, gentlemen, as a German from Bohemia, I know this country and the Czech people very well. I have experienced the Czech attempts at autonomy in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, I have seen the struggle of the Czechs for their own state, and as Sudetendeutscher and thus forced as Czech-Slovak citizens I have felt the hardship and oppression in my own flesh for 20 years. I have been sitting on the benches of the Prague Parliament for years with most of the Czech gentlemen who today in the emigration of London and Paris, by all means, in their good people, sitting on their benches as a member of the Czechoslovakian National Assembly. I know that the Czech people today, in their great majority, have the insight and also the desire: for the enormous shipwreck of the Czechoslovak state