STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393

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0 -4- an agreement is by no means possible. Only our victory will bring you help! Lecture Professor Stranský : Jnhalt: Polemics with the teaching of the German habitat! . The German habitat is actually only about a new name for an old thing, namely the old German robbery and terror. It is about perfect Germanization under the cover of the German habitat. Today the Germans consider our old Czech homeland as their habitat, which is deprived of all free rights. But tomorrow our home can be free again and all rights come back. What is our home? It is the basis for our lives and our existence, the center of our cultural, economic and political existence, etc. .... The Czech homeland had a difficult fate in the past, it survived all the dangers, nothing could erase it from the map. Hitler has now tried again and tried to falsify the history of the migration of peoples in order to justify his act of violence. He wants to convince you that the Czechs only came to the German territories as a S laven people. In reality, our people had spread over a large area to the Elbe and the Saale and had to gradually retreat to our territories under the pressure of other peoples. However, our closer homeland resisted any pressure and only in the 13th century did our rulers voluntarily call German colonists into the country. Even if our countries voluntarily joined the German emperors, they remained independent and in full possession of their free rights at all times. Even if the German emperors resided in Prague, Bohemia would not have the status of an independent principality like Bavaria, all was due only to the fact that a Bohemian king was at the same time German emperor and therefore Prague was two-fold residence city. The German Empire never had the charakter of a rule over our homeland, but it was based on a voluntary bond. Also with the Austrian monarchy were the Laender: the Bohemian Crown bound only by the acknowledgment of the Habsburg dynasty, but never they were part of the German Empire. Lest Palacký nach , who writes: Das cschech. People are small, but they have their own characteristics and are independent! Our people cannot be counted among the Germans. No historian came to deny him his permanent sovereign power. The German emperors have nothing in common with the Bohemian kings. The bond with the Deutsehén is not a bond of our peoples, but only a bond between the emperors, Bine Verbundenheit with the German people has no historical backing MExäänxkantakkänxxxxxX and no justification. Whoever would demand the bond of the Czech people with the Germans would have the suicide of the czech. People want!" The Habsburgs wanted to centralize their rule under German influence. But the Czechs, on the other hand, put their program and their demands on independence. The Czech state never ceased to exist as an independent state form. World War II brought the principle of freedom of the Vökkers. Homeland has given itself its own constitution and kept its own face until 1938. Darn was forcibly separated from the territories belonging to it in the Sudeten. But the complete integration in March lg39 clearly showed what Hitler was all about. That's so. Protectorate is mur the mask behind which the true face of the German robbers hides. The question in our national anthem "Kde domov muj " is only a rhetorical Fra e. Every Czech knows it in his heart. It is the home ground among us, from which the German rulers now want to displace us. The German habitat is nothing but a Babylonian tower with its language confusion. Its construction will collapse before the first floor is finished. Then again a free Chekhoslova will exist!