Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1001, sig. 110-10/3

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English Translation

.- 7 - serious political events, from the first frightening experience from the ravage of a self-sustainability, in the whole quite straight-handedly leads into the great environment of the Great German Reich, that thus for the broad masses of the Czech people througheus did not go forward no contradictory, but rather a development that was perceived as logically and historically conditioned. This positive development, however, would not have been possible if the establishment of the protectorate, as the enemies would have liked to claim, had been an act of German iapcriism, for then the resistance would probably have been different and greater. In effect, the establishment of the Protectorate was nothing more than the restoration of the thousand-year-old, barely for twenty years once interrupted - politically as well as culturally and economically, I can at least justify dics in a few words. Politically, Bohemia and Moravia aurch has belonged to the empire for a thousand years, actually already under Emperor Kerl the Great. It has belonged in various forms to the kingdom, and it has never been disputed that it belonged to empires. The Bohemian dukes were first under the feudal relations of the German kings, later the Bohemian was at the head of the electors of Germany, and in the 1 4th century the Bohemians themselves were German emperors, a convention that later did not tear down when Bohemia and Moravia entered the habsburgisee countries, when they belonged to the German federal territory, i.e. the German Reich, until 1 866. This is a clear political line, which is also clearly recognized and highlighted by the members of the Czech intelligentsia, even the line which the Czechs, who are trying to find themselves in today's times, which gives political support and which is best marked by a word that you can hear more often in Bohemia and Moravia, by the word of the "wenceslas tradition", as the old Horzog Wenceslaus. In the year 929 his brother was murdered, because he operated a rich policy, this tradition had to be re-established by precisely dieecn brother Boleslav already after a few years, because the politics in this area was simply not to be mastered differently. One often asked the gothic question, why the Czech people at all so in the heart of the German people.