English Translation

4 G n d e s •I The defendant, Count C z e r n in and the defendant, count K i n s k y, are members of the Czech nationalities. Count C e r - n n moved to the Forstakademie in Tharandt after the visit of the German Gymnasium in Tetsehen. He then spent three years as a volunteer in agriculture and forestry in order to prepare himself for the administration of his father's land. In the year l93l he took over from his father the estate in Dimokur, on which he lived until the last time with his family. According to his report, Count C z e r n i n did not belong to any party or otherwise actively engage in political activity. The 65-year-old defendant Count K 1 n s k y received his debt at the Czech Gymnasium in Reichenau• He then studied law at the universities of Prague and Inisbruck and anechlieasend ala Gasthörer took up the agricultural high school in Halle. After completing his military service in an Austrian Reiter regiment, he was promoted to lieutenant of the reserve. Subsequently, he prepared himself for his future profession as a farmer in a similar manner to Count C z e r n i n. In the year l9o3 he took over the estate in Adlerkosseletz, which he had inherited from a father who had already died in 1899. In 1934 the defendant transferred the administration of the good to one of his sons, during the First World War Count K i n s k y stood as Austrian officer on various war scenes in the front line. He was awarded the bronze and silver Signum Laudis, the Military Cross 3rd class with sworddog of war decoration and as liaison officer in a Prussian division also with the Iron Cross II class. He retired as a knight from the Austrian army and after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in their Wehrmacht was led as captain of the reserve, however 1929 without holding the batch. Until the collapse of the Danube