STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 461, sig. 109-4/206

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- 17 - 30 21. Name changes. First of all, it should be mentioned that all Germans should also have German surnames. However, since the people with surnames of other Germanic or Romanesque origin, especially French or Italian origin, are consistently recommended as well as ethnically German, they are thus genuinely repopulated in their sex, so there is no reason for a change of name.In addition, the family names are usually very old among the Germanic and the Germani developed Roman peoples and often point to Germanic roots with hereditary genders also of the ro-manic countries. It is different with surnames of Slavic origin. Since the racially similar, hereditary layers of the Slavic peoples (incl. of the Hungarian) mostly have considerable German impacts and many of their families are only linguistically de-Germanized, and since at last many families of the eastern peoples are younger date, we should not have the same awe of Slavic family names as our own. For name-slavized Germans and for real people, the name-denomination must therefore be carried out. In unreal repopulation concepts are excluded from name changes as well as false repopulated. 22. Church and religious movements. The Roman Catholic Church has never been the evangelical, only rarely true bearer and designer of Germanism in the popular struggle. Therefore, the own struggle for popularism and the protection of the border areas by the people is to be conducted on the political:n and Volkische, but not also on the church level. Churches and church associations have usually been the bearer of the psychic resistance of neighbouring foreign peoples against us (e.g. the Catholic Church in Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Calvinism in Hungary, Hussism in Czechia). Where the destruction of their influence in groups of foreign people is not possible, the churches of the Germans are to be completely prevented by the equal confessional of groups of the foreign people and common worship. - 18 -