English Translation

transcript. icherheitsdienst RFH SD-Aussenstelle Trebitsch ef Betr.: Attitude of the Czech population to the nobility. In recent weeks, during conversations with Czechs of all sections of the population in the area of the Trebitsh branch, the question about the attitude of the czech population to a nobility was given special attention. Almost uniformly it was expressed that the Czech population, as far as it is not communist or democratic, is not opposed to the nobility in contrast to the time of the monarchy and partly also in the republic. From time immemorial, the Czech population in the nobility had seen a caste, which only mattered the preservation of their possessions and which, from this point of view, adjusted to the respective political situation. National concerns had only played a second role in this. However, less because the Czechs had not paid attention to this question, but rather because the nobility has never made any difficulties in a völkischer way. In the öst.ung. Monarchy, Czechoslovakia and since the existence of the Protectorate, the Czech population had had sufficient opportunity to observe the attitude of the nobility in the various forms of government in order to arrive at the above fundamental view. In answering the question "Changing the Czech population to the nobility" the term "Czech population" has to be treated roughly according to two points of view, namely politically little thinking and politically thinking. The politically little-thinking part is formed almost exclusively by the adolescent rural population. Their attitude towards the nobility is influenced by the feeling of a more or less material guarantee by the nod. Since the old-established nobility always regarded the Czechs as equal to the Germans and paid them accordingly, the attitude of this part of the Czech population towards the aristocracy was almost entirely faithful and devoted. At the time of the ČsR, this devotion of the rural population to the old-established aristocracy was due to the fact that through the land reform, the newly-arrived remaining landowners had to the last