STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1805, sig. 109-5/33 (damaged)

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the Uk positions of the noble landowners were to be reviewed in each individual case, to the extent that it could be established so far, the Counts Vladimir M i t r o w s k y and Baron T e u b è took over a number of functions carried out by their administrators in order, if necessary, to have proof of their inequilibrium in their hands. Above all, it is feared that these commissions will work with specific instructions of the Reichsführer-i, who intends to use the so far uk-managed nobles for a frontal probation.Further statements can be found that since the blossom of the nobility by the Führerattentat and especially after the speech of Reichsleiter Dr. Ley in the aristocracy of great fear of spying, denunciation and betrayal. For example, Count Alois P o d s t a t s k y - L i e c h t e n s t e i n from Gross-Meseritsch wants to form a particularly familiar aris within his employee and workership, of which he knows that he would stick with him on death and destruction. In special cases and in the case of striking evidence of his loyalty, he would elicit considerable rewards. A recent meeting of German and Czech landowners from Moravia dealt mainly with questions of possible expropriation or circumcision of the noble estate. A new land reform in these countries is expected in favour of war victims. While one seems to be convinced of the measures to be expected in Czech nobles of the Grossgrundbesit- kreisen, on the German side it is only possible that particularly proven and highly excellent destitute nobles are ennobled with large-scale property after the war. The goods to be created in this way are to be expropriated from the large landowners, whose possessions go beyond a certain extent and who have not yet performed a front-line service. Strong interest is also shown in the events in the Balkans, whereby the fate of the former Hungarian Prime Minister Count B e t h e n is discussed in particular. It is claimed that until now he has been sought in vain by organs of the secret state police. For the currently in Hungary K9_1a9