STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 122, sig. 109-2/23

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19 2 The fate of the Czech people and according to the state-legal forms of its involvement. Every time the German people were strong and their empire was powerful, it also determined the political fate of Czech people. The thousand-year membership of the Czechs to the old empire or to German-led states, however, has determined not only the political and social, but also the racial structure of the czech people. From the beginning, a German-Czech blood mixture took place here. As the Czech princes brought their wives from the princely houses of the empire, so did the rest of the nobility, as well as the bourgeoisie, first and the Bguern. In the first half of the 19th century, the relationship between Germans and Tschechen, which until then also existed on the flat land, turned into the opposite, which can only be explained by a quiet repopulation of the corresponding number of interpreters. Aadere on the other hand, a Germanization of numerous Czechs took place excellently during the course of the 1 9th century. The result of this thousand-year historical process is a broad racial equality of the two peoples in the Bohemian region, in which only a minority originally kept racial features pure. From Jittphn this strong reception -gtdeen Blutes probably also explains the ability of the Czech people to prepare dexxkn his undeniable artistic-technical-scientific achievements, especially since the beginning of the 19th century. - 3 -