English Translation

A/28 Speech /of the Secretary of State Franl/ at the opening ceremony of the "German Society of Economy in Bohemia and Moravia" on 12. 9. 1940. Crumn? The enormous events of these days, the gigantic replacement of weapons, which had preceded a conflict and a separation of spirits, means a revision in all areas of our lives. A world of chaotic states collapses before our eyes, a new world of order is already emerging. The eternal irrevocable laws of the supremacy and validity of the spiritually superior, more viable, younger and stronger, had to be hammered into the world's consciousness only by the bronze blows of the German weapons. This victory of arms has now paved the way for the young peoples of Europe to build the most powerful Ausmesse. For three centuries, Europe has suffered from the fact that the first strong and leading centre of this part of the world had been broken down and the Atlantic rims were able to exert an disproportionate weight. The two decisive main tendencies, the French supremacy policy and the English balance policy have become past due to the shocking force of German weapons. Thus, the heavy weight of the event shifts from the western peripheral states to the middle of the continent. The countries of Bohemia and Moravia, the old heartlands of the Reicher regain their traditional great importance. Already under the Luxembourg Charles IV. Bohemia is the heart of a large German-Central European state structure with a west-eastern axis. The Hussite towers abruptly ended this first attempt to create a space-related design. The tragedy of the disintegration of organically given and thus