English Translation

t to - 12 - The "Always faithful Pilsen" was strongly Catholic until l9l8. With the establishment of the republic, a free-thinking and atheistic world view began to gain ground under the influence of Marxism, on the other hand, the new Czechoslovak Church began to attract followers. These losses have been recovered by the Catholic Church since the establishment of the Protectorate. The Church has been able to use the current national tendencies for its purposes. Pilsen has once again become "always faithful". In public life in Pilsna the Jews played a major role. Economy and commerce were dominated by them during the Republic, without the Czechs getting close to it, at the head of the Literary-Artistic Club was formerly a Jew, the medical staff was completely jewish, the Social Democracy went hand in hand with the Jews. Although there was an opposition against the Jews at this time, not for racial reasons, but only because the Jews strengthened the position of Germanism. They spoke in public German, dominated the German association system, met with the leaders of German society, etc. This is exactly how they were at home throughout Czech society and public life, but they also spoke German. It was only with the establishment of the second republic that a more serious anti-Jewish propaganda began, which pointed to racial inferiority in particular. But this development was interrupted by the invasion of the German Wehrmacht, the Jews were suddenly no longer supporters of the german language, rather those of the Czechs, and are accordingly sought as allies. Just as in the city of Pilsen the Jews also held all the important places in the rural environment. There was not even a presumptuous development here.