STATE SECRETARY FOR THE REAL PROTECTOR IN THING AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 298, sig. 109-4/40

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2/9a 42, Wealth level: Schwihau (Švihov) 27,0 % 12,6 % Gemil (Semily) 34,4.0 19,1 % Sobieslau (Soběslav) 26 %/0 15 %/ Wal.-Meserich (Vlašské Meziřiči) . 34 0/0 23 0/ Vlashim (Vlasim) 24 0/ 0 11 0/0/0 Sdíslawít (Zdislavice) . . . The results are as follows: Cemetery: I II III Bresni3 (Březnice) . . . 32.4% 23.1% 12.1% Nepomuk (Nepomuc) . , 37 % 23 0% 14 0% Schlan (Slaný) . 39,8 % 36,4 % 32,6 % In Pibrans (Přibran), the wall graves showed 32 %/o, the edge= graves 29 %, the rest, Joweit they were stonemäler, 26,6 °o, and the shichten Eisenkreuzen only 18,9 °% German names. In the cemetery Seltschan (Sedlčany) we find under wall graves of stone 20 °/o, under wall= graves made of iron 15 %/o , among other graves from stone also 15 % /0 , under the rest of iron only 1o °o German surnames. As I have shown in an investigation of the living population of some major Bohemian cities, the number of German family names in the benefit groups can also be shown in these situations, however, even more clearly.2o) Thus, the hundreds of German names were included in: Rokitzan Tchaslau I. Academician. . . . 43.2 39 II. Medium-sized enterprises, 34,4 31 III. Trained workers and lower civil servants. 28.7 18 IV. According to all this, there can hardly be any doubt that the population of Bohemia and Moravia, who today professed to be Czech, has not only received much German blood in general, but also in recent times - but also to the same extent to the neighbouring German tribes, especially to northern Sudetenland and Vienna - but that this new German blood supply has also proved to be a very special asset and that the upper layers of the Czech cloud have built up blood= moderately. In this way, however, the famous Czech rise in the 19th century was prepared biologically one ts ch eid en d. Without those German streams of life, the Czech people would hardly have been able to reach its single cultural height in the nineteenth century. 20) op. cit. 1942. p. 493. 11326