English Translation

186 - 2 - to make the Slovaks the Lord over Slovak things at any price. These were thoughts of Hlinka, which does not need to defend itself, to be a "Nazi agent". From there leads the way to Slovak independence. To this problem avf will forget the Silleiner+Speech of the president of the state. From this time also dates the constructive and positive relationship to Germanism. Reference to the common autonomous front in the Prague Parliament. In particular, friendly relations with the Carpathian German ethnic group. In order to resume a line that was already present in the 19v century. For sehon in the revolution of l848 the leaders of the Slovak people turned to Vienna and raised from Bort the promotion of their national aspirations. Even ain Hodža began his political career in close agreement with the Ebzherzog-Tron successor Franz Ferdinand. The Slovak-German friendship relationship thus has a politically significant tradition that existed long before National Socialism. The Great German Empire has only drawn the consequences from these traditions of the 19th century and the national policy of Techecho-Slovakia. Anyone who claims that the independent Slovakia is a Nazi invention is an ignorance. It is absolutely necessary for the Slovak people and the Slovak intelligentsia to make this line of development and tradition clear. From all this, the insurrection movement was not an expression of genuine Slovak tendencies, but its strongest opponent. Precisely because there was no contrast between Germans and Slovaks, they operated with the unscrupulous invention of the assassination of the President and tried to place the power as the destroyer of Slovak freedom, which was their author and guarantor. - 3 -