STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1776, sig. 109-5/4 Page 16 · 16 of 117
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1776, sig. 109-5/4
English Translation
- 3 - economic development, and so we came to a self-exploration that took place on the pages of our history, which in the last century was interpreted in such a way as not to let the Czech people understand the truth. The Great German Empire was always strong when our homeland formed its inseparable part and Czech history was always a powerful song of fame and bloom when the Great German Reich strengthened. The Pschemyslids have clearly brought out the paths of Central European development. They were aware of the danger to which the Czech people had fallen, which at the time of the migration of peoples had penetrated deeply against the West into areas which supported the settlement sites of solid German tribes, into areas that had to be integrated geographically and politically in this or that way into the Great German Empire founded by Charlemagne. Already a whole millennium ago, the Pschemyslids saw that no other way remains open to the Czech people than the choice between a vain, ruining struggle and a cooperation that will bring the Czech future and prosperity. And so it happened that the German Empire's glory was full thousand years also a Czech glory. Where the Czech chronicle speaks with love of the father of the Fatherland of Charles IV, the German history tells of the great time when Prague was the capital of the German Empire, where the history of the whole of Europe was directed from the Prague Castle and where Prague was at the heart of European culture. As soon as worries and confusion invaded the German Reich, the Bohemian countries were not spared from worries and turmoil. Therefore, every attempt by the leaders of the Czech people to fight for a defense against the Great German Reich had to fail and lead to national damage. These blinded have set the axe on a trunk whose most beautiful branch is the Bohemian lands