English Translation

36 The following report is intended to give an image of the inner forces of the Slovak uprising and its effects, unimpeded by all that has been experienced afterward, just as it could be gained through immediate insights and experiences and indirect conclusions. When I went to Slovakia on 12 August, I was asked to examine the question of the importance of the ethnic groups in contrast to the ethnic denominations within the social strife of the Slovak population, partly by identifying gift centres (densities points), partly by applying the so-called priedhof method. As it has been trained in Bohemia and Moravia, it is precisely this that promises particularly rich results in Slovakia, since there there are three groups of people's citizenship and ethnic denominations in relation to each other, It is impressive to show how decisive the German-born element in the performance carrier layer plays both the Madyaronic and the Slovakian group of knowledge, but Dane- ben however, special subtleties come into the eye, e.g. a clear gradation of the directional positivities also within the German and Slovak groups themselves. While the gradation in the interpretations is due to a gradient of the gift bearer groups between Zips and Hauerland, where the Zips must be addressed as an externally gifted center, on the Slovak side there are signs of a difference of application between the more gifted evangelical and the less gifted catholic group. It was now surprising, immediately upon closer knowledge with educated German as well as Slovak - 2 -