English Translation

h2 2 The exhibition is further proof of how strongly Bohemia and Moravia had grown up with the German motherland for centuries. From Prague, the New High German written language once took its way through Germany and thus created one of the prerequisites for the political and state unification of the German people that took place only in our day. Bohemia, once the most prominent Electorate of the Empire, has therefore always been the subject of general German interest. Many books that appeared in Nuremberg, Leipzig and other cities of the Reich testify to this. However, German book production in the country itself has also always been lively. Law books, state and city descriptions were written in large numbers in German. Finally, they were poets and writers of this Bohemian-Moravian space who contributed through their books to the understanding of the Empire for the struggle of local Germanism. Thus, the history of this space can be traced by the hand of his German writing. If I can open a national-socialist deusian book exhibition today in the old Prague Rudolfinum, I would like to remind you that in this very house, which for almost two decades had to serve a great-speaker Czech parliamentarism, the cultural bondage and detachment of the Sudeten Germanism was dictated. As the head of a political publishing house and as the delegate of the Sudeten German Party, I have spent many years