English Translation

- 23 - 95 the basis of the relations of the peoples and their actual people-biological forces to be recognized and balanced, pre-power and economic policy measures to be taken in the long term. The so-called water poles are politically a German-Polish intermediate layer in a often German confession, which shows many transitions from us quite related to and to alien and rejecting types. Their number is only imprecise to be estimated. During the treatment, attention must be paid to the distinction strictly necessary for political reasons from the Poles. The water poles today represent a large part of the Upper Silesian industrial population and the rural population. For parts of them a real repopulation is to be expected. About the hundredth of this percentage can only be given today hard data, because so far documents about it and experiencers greater mass are missing. (i) Czechs and Moravians and related groups (more than 300 000 in the Sudetengau and other Gauen, almost 7 million in the Protectorate). In the narrower sense of the term, there are usually no significant differences between the Czechs or the Czech Moravian tribes. Therefore, these peoples and tribes can be considered politically as unity by us. The Czechs and Moravians are very diverse in racial terms. In the sum of the population, the German-born and German regions stand out racially clearly as stronger Nordic and foreignly determined from the racially more inconsistent Old Czech Moravian regions. The Nordic blood strike in the Techechen people itself seems often to be due to German descent. Thus, there are possibilities in which the sum of the then mostly peasant-manual population is racially and culturally equal to the Germans: Czechized, formerly German territories (Czechized in the past centuries by Habsburg, clergy and large land ownership). For the time being, there is little to be expected of the racially valuable strata for the sake of the Volkisches, and it was only reached in the Old Kingdom. The mass of the Czech people would only be unreal a d - 24 -