English Translation

98 could make no illusions about the fate of their civilization, to whom their country should fall into the hands of Hitler. Mr Pfitzner, professor at the Prague German University, explained in a meeting of the Prague Municipal Council as a representative of the tiny German minority - because if the Nazis could not impose an ibr totalitarian regime, then they did not make any difference if they could profit from democratic freedoms - that Prague was formerly a city of German civilization and that it should be Zixk again in the future. On his journey through the German circles of the Czechoslovaks the Swedish writer Anton Karlgren made following observations; *What noble Sudeten Germans xufxtxekxktsyxxxx texxkxxrixgxexxsxxiax put up as an outpost of German culture was not the threat of their own culture, did not want to be, and in the intellectual sense was also not a branch of Germany.The whole Bohemian culture is, so they, German origin, it was German immigrants who gave them the spiritual and material culture. The Czechs are obliged to give them ulterior gratitude, but these debts - although the Czechs admit the importance of the slippery influence - are not really appreciated......My conversation with the sympathetic German doctor was calm and peace-loving up to this point: he was reason himself, but in this point he could not grasp himself. he thought that the "chechen the eultur, which was · of German origin, when their own looked at him in fury jer brought him spoke louder and struck on the table, And moreover, if already the Czech culture was of German origins, it was the duty of the Czechs to goreere, she also German