GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 989, sig. 110-9/5 (damaged)

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English Translation

- 5 - 51 To 2.: Originally there was a strong racial difference between Germanic Germans and Slave Czechs. However, the Czechs' thousands of years of belonging to the old Reich or to German-led states not only determined the political and social, but also the racial structure of the Czech people, i.e. largely changed. From the beginning a German-Czech blood mixture took place in the Bohemian-Mauritian region. Just as the Czech princes brought their wives from German noble families, so the bourgeoisie and the peasants mixed with Germans. In the early 19th century, the relationship between Germans and Czechs of 5 : 3, which existed on the flat land, has turned into the opposite of 3 : 5, which can only be explained by a silent conversion of the corresponding number of Germans into Czechs, whose descendants today - with Czech or German names - live as Czechs. On the other hand, a Germanization of numerous Czechs took place in the course of the 19th century. The birth of a fairy thousand-year-old historical pro-Uuglode zesses is a broad racial level equality of the two peoples, so that today only a minority has kept pure original racial characteristics. The strong absorption of German blood also explains the ability of the Czech people to ixets to a far greater extent than, for example, Slavic Poland's important civil, technical and cultural achievements, especially since the beginning of the 19th century.