English Translation

- L• The year l620 is the year of fate, not only for Bohemia, but for the entire German people. In the battle on the White Mountain, the absolutism of the Habsburgs, the Catholic counter-reformation, prevails. A new Europe rises. The German people pay the costs, the Czech people have paid them. This is perhaps the deepest attachment to fate of the two neighbours. Now begins the detachment from the Reich and the Reichsverband, a process that takes place everywhere in the whole of the Reich. The German state peculiarities form and solidify. It arises, partly under the influence of new economic and social relations, partly as a result of a newly exogenous policy, Prussia, Württemberg, Bavaria, Austria, etc. as modern states. Bohemia has grown no different from the old empire than the German hereditary countries of Austria. It participates in this period of German constitutional history just like the other German countries, i.e. the formation of the modern German states from the suusqnsuete In the constitutional connection between Bohemia and the Reich nothing changes. On the contrary, e.g. by the so-called "readmitting" of the Bohemian Curate at the German Reichstag in Regensburg at the beginning of the 18th century (in connection with the plans of an imperial reform of the then well-German-minded Habsburger) it is evident that the affiliation of Bohemia to the state federation of the German Empire was beyond any question. It is interesting to mention, as the recent history of Bohemia emphasizes, that the crown of Bohemia