English Translation

The Thirty Years' War is the best example of the fateful connection of the Bohemian countries with the rest of the German Reich in the past and present, of the relationship between good and evil. Every struggle of the empire in the past was also a battle of the Czechs, though it was now the Mongolian hordes from the east, the Turkish heaps from the southeast or the French mercenaries from the west. The Bohemian countries were raised by German emperors to a kingdom. Where in the past the Czechs have followed the right instincts of the European community, they have always stood by and have to stand by the German Empire, because its fate has also been their destiny for a thousand years. After World War II, France attempted to re-establish the traditional policy of Cardinal Richelieu, whose aim for three hundred years was to crush and destroy the German Empire. The result of this policy was the Thirty Years' War, during which the Bohemian countries were plundered, the people were exterminated to three quarters and brought to the beggar's staff in a desperate manner. It was only the preparation of the Bohemian countries to become a place of war in the new world war, but it was a far more miserable place than in the Thirty Years' War. After World War II, Czech politics and before World War I the Czech conquest was directed against the Empire and played irresponsibly with the Czech fate. Munich showed in 1938 the foolish train of this conquest and the unreasonable naivety of this policy. This policy has linked us to life and death with the democratic West, which has sprawled away and with the mysterious East, which was born in serious struggles. If everything had gone as planned by the politics of Dr. Benesach in their plan, Prague and next to Prague all Czech cities would be a rubble.