NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 698, sig. 110-4/549 Page 90 · 90 of 155
GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 698, sig. 110-4549
English Translation
The secret of the formation of the will of a group of people, which is inconceivable, is more helpless than the psychologist in exploring the mysteries of the mass will and the individual will. Insofar as it depends on the creative instinct, the politics of art are related. The artist draws beautiful things with instinctive certainty, the politician suggestive. The former is addressed to the human being as an impression recipient, the latter to the person as a bearer of will. Standing between art and strategy, the politics of the cool mind as well as of the life-warming instinct need. Thus, it is no coincidence that great politicians always have something muscular and something military at the same time. This realization is necessary in order to understand the political work that a man of military and musical character could begin in Prague, but could not complete: Reinhard Heydrich. He immediately realized his goal: to positively align the will of the inhabitants of the Bohemian-Moravian space with the ideas of the empire. His creative instinct at the same time grasped the path and means. Since every political formation of will is somehow tied to tradition, he deepened himself into the history of the space and found in the mission of the Bohemian King Wenceslas the historical connection point for the new imperial thought, but also in the hate-distorted conception of Palacky's history that hostile cell, which in the twenty years after the First World War had driven as seductive as dangerously poisonous blossoms under Benesch. There could be no doubt about the misty effects of drugs in the recent past influenced by Palacký. It appeared in many ways: in seemingly apathetic, indiscriminate attitude of leading personalities 74