English Translation

A b s c h r if t Sicherheitsdienst RFl 4.5.1944. SD-Division Pilsen Betr.: Hiring the Czech population to the nobility. Further in-depth investigations into the attitude of the Czech people to the land-ownership nobility revealed that for this attitude the majority of the population of Czechs were largely political moments or events. Even if, for example, in the vicinity of noble seats, an even more positive attitude towards the nobility can be observed from an old attachment, even if it is e.g. German nobility, which more or less reveals a certain popular attitude in their behaviour in the public sphere, is nevertheless often subject to certain restrictions in such narrowly limited circles and explains, for example, that the nobility in general has always understood how to win the Czech people for its interests. From conversations with Czechs from the vicinity of the nobility, it is also repeatedly apparent that the actions of the former ČsR against the aristocracy, the removal of the predicates of the aristocrats and the undermining of the economy. In the case of Czechs who are still attached today, it is no longer possible to speak of an absolutely positive attitude towards their nobility. By such a czecfoft, that one personally had nothing against the local aristocracy, but that the drastic measures at the time of the republic against the nobility were certainly in some way justified and were only met, because the nod itself had taken a completely negative position on the former republic. In such circles it is only often acknowledged that the nobility at that time changed rapidly in its behaviour and adapted to the new traditions created by the ČSR, and in some cases even mixed with bourgeois elements, which had once again won many advocates for the aristocracy.