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

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52 - 9. Again and again Germans from the Old Reich, who suspected a "Polish economy" in the Protectorate, were amazed at the high level of culture and "eben in this space. To 3.é The eschichte finally shows that the form of the first tributary, then the legal integration of Bohemia into the Reich, meant a solution beneficial for both parts. The dissolution of Bohemia in tit Jahrhun- dert from the Reichsverband is not an isolated process, but one of the many cases of fragmentation of the old empire in territories. The break took place in connection with the great religious-confessional contradictions, which not only led to political divisions between neighbouring peoples, but also within the individual peoples. As a result, nothing changes in the constitutional relationship between Bohemia and the Empire. Until the year l918, the countries of Bohemia and Moravia have been included in a large-scale German-led state formation and have lived in it in a kind of political autonomy. Only the 20-year historical intermediate act of the Masargk - Beneš - Aira brings the attempt of an absolute contrast to Germanism. If the spatial situation forces the integration of Bohemia and Moravia into the empire, the racial image of the Czechs allows for a greater part of the population to be assimilated to the Czech people by means of a policy of repopulation. The historical past, however, shows us the protective form of the integration into the old empire of Bohemia in a year-long probation. The far-reaching goal of socialist policy in the Reich