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34 - 21 - also no harmless cheerfulness. e) Lithuanians, cures, Lottes (5-1o O00). In Memelland Lithuanians are resident, in addition disappearing and practically meaningless remnants of cures and Latvians. They are racially partly substantially different from the German people. A real change would only be expected from relatively few layers. These peoples are, as far as they are not really a class of people, separated from us from us, from us and biologically, to cold and shall remain on their lower cultures. (f) Masurc and Kashuben (each several hundred thousand), the Masurs and Kaschuben in East Prussia and the Danziger Land are similar to us in some classes, in others to be described as racially different. In the mass simple and little creative, they live in pronounced retreats offer. Thanks to the centuries-long coexistence with the Germans, especially in the past hundred years, a political commitment to Germanism has been developed throughout the Masurs, in the Kashubs, which also proved its p•litic probation in the last decades, (popular moods and the Polish period). Although the Nordic parts of both peoples may well have already risen in German, and the broad mass, racially in sum of their composition, is no longer fully equal to our own racial structure, the actual racial and cultural differences that exist must not be prayed because of the much-proven political reliability. Since a real repopulation of the majority of today's Masurs and Kashuben is not to be expected from racial grinning (which is also taught by the experiences in the Ruhr region), it seems desirable to allow the present cultural state of both peoples to be maintained for as long as possible. g) The sobs or turns are even more Germanic than masuras and Kashuben. Here, too, a special treatment must be rejected in a völkischer or even political way. The present state with its practically sufficient political reliability or political - 22 -