GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1007, sig. 110-10/10

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English Translation

h -7 weakness on the part of the victorious powers will always tempt the Germans to bring back their lost wealth. Any measure of general disarmament will certainly equip the Germans again, in view of the fact that armor is always relative and not absolute. Every system of collective security, by forcing the victorious powers to suppress "aggression" throughout the world, thereby distracting foreign policy from its judicial purpose of promoting national interests, will offer a patient, vigilant and determined Germany the opportunity to regain what it has lost. However, we believe that the German problem can be solved - but only if England has a firm political view, without which Europe will be lost - and with Europe also narrow country. It is a very dangerous mistake to believe that the German problem has also exhausted the European problem and that the European issue will be solved if Germany has been reduced to permanent powerlessness.The European problem has not been solved unless the Eastern European problem is solved. It is the integration of Europe and the restoration of what Burke called the "Common Law of Europe" and from which the Germans under Hitler's revolutionary leadership have detached themselves. What is the Eastern European problem? It is maintaining the countries between the Baltic Sea and the Aegean Sea as independent states and their integration as an organic whole. Because those countries in the time when Germany became a great power -8-