Abstract

Race Hate - a Sudeten Tradition

According to the author, the ancient and intimate enmity between the Czechs and their countrymen, the Sudeten German has vitiated the political life in Europe. The swastika was used as an emblem of racial purity in German Bohemia and much of the spirit of narrow-minded hatred, which is so characteristic of Nazi psychology, developed in the villages and small towns in Bohemia and Moravia where Czechs and Germans have lived together for centuries. There is a great cultural abyss between Sudeten Germans and Czechs. The Czechs are modern-minded and very curious about other nations' customs and ideas. They read German books in translations or in the original. The average Sudeten German does not care much about Czech literature or about his own.