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

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English Translation

:- 8 .- offers had been able to hold for more than a thousand years. The Czechs themselves answer the question today by pointing out that the Czech Vclk had always understood how to act in the right moment, so that this Duke Wenceslas did not allow a decision-making struggle with a ten-fold larger, surrounding people to come, but rather to place himself in the Reichsraum at the right time and to save his own people's existence precisely by this classification in the Empire. So it was no coincidence that the President Dr. Hácha, when he took over the presidency in 1938, went before to do Prague St. Vit Dom and kissed the skull of Wenceslas as a symbol of this traditional policy of Czechism that the people returned to the historically consolidated ten-year-old political tradition. But also culturally, all the prerequisites for a courtship of Bohemia and Moravia are given to the Reich. Czech and German culture are closely related to each other and interlinked. Bohemia belongs to the German cultural landscape according to its entire form of settlement as well as to its cities, all of which have been built with a single exception of Germans. The Czech language itself reveals the use of the German culture in many loanwords. Even the folk and customs such as folk songs and costumes show a strong relationship. In the l4th century, Prague, as mentioned, was the centre of the empire, and the Boukunst, Gothic and Baroque, were no different in Prague than in the other parts of the Germany Empire. Even where the Czech people have done a very valuable job in the field of their original culture, in the area of music, there are close cultural relations. Smetana had a German mother. He stood with the German musicians of his time in the closest Konnex and also Dvořak and the others, and so one can see that the Czech culture derives from German roots and to a large extent only gained importance through the German mediation in the world. The famous "buried bride" did not go into the world from Preg, however she has come out in Vienna so that she has the world, and so I could lead countless examples of the cultural connections, which however would not be conceivable, if not German and Czech folkdom in this century.