English Translation

41-54 Was it the time of the collection of Germanicism, or in the struggle of the emperors and popes, or the time when the German people almost bled out for the good of faith in the 30-year-old war, or was it the last world war or the period of the fight of the National Socialist movement, Germany was always in danger, if it was divided, seduced by strangers, forsaken itself. But Germany was always victorious and great when it found faith in itself, its strength, its superiority — without losing its clear sense of reality and the knowledge and elimination of its own faults. The holy faith in the power of our people given by Providence has always overcome difficult times, the cool mind and the unbridled will have put the leadership in the camps to master the journeys soberly. March 15, 1939, historically, is not only the fulfilment of the wishes of the German heart, but soberly understood the real completion of a political necessity. The great war that we are witnessing now is the life-defining struggle for the survival of Great Germany and Europe. Thus, politically, economically and humanly, precisely because of its necessary sacrifices and burdens as a melting pot, it will help to deepen and complete the final growth of this space into the Reich. Thus today, politically speaking, is a day of grateful and respectful remembrance of 15 March 1939, which created the foundation and the beginning of the political and legal process for that development and for those tasks which we are willing to do together with the inhabitants of Bohemia and Moravia, in the sense of the 66