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

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==References====External links== It is often explained that the descendants of the down-to-earth nobility were frequently born diplomats who, due to their experiences, opportunities and ties with foreign countries, already had the necessary conditions for their international diplomacy and therefore found a better way for the Czech nation than he had been elected by the political parties dominated by selfishness and materialism at the time of the republic. A change in this attitude, apart from the Sudetengau itself at the time of the sudeten crisis, also occurred to a large extent in the western Bohemian peripheral regions, since the political conflicts at that time also in the rural population again and again formed the conviction that the demands of the SdP were strongly supported by the influential nobility out of revenge against the ČsR and also by the various foreign connections of the nobility. The count Sc h ö n b o r n had been accused of having to transfer the Czechs to the Reich only because the count wanted the unification of his entire residence with the Reich and finally he had to transfer part of his possessions without taking into account the purely Czech settlement. For this reason, after the establishment of the Protectorate, the efforts of leading Czech circles to involve the nobility more strongly in Czech politics were actively observed and it was suggested that the various Czech nobility should achieve better cooperation with the empire by detouring the German nobility. In particular, the appointment of F o u s e k to the NG leader was strongly evaluated in this sense, but soon the whole attempt was considered to be unsuccessful. Although in the subsequent period the fact that the nobility came back into the background again or. Despite the establishment of a protectorate, he continued to live in seclusion, a more indifferent attitude of the Czech population arose, but it cannot be said in any way that there was a negative attitude. For example, many Czechs among noblemen who, after the establishment, professed themselves to be a German after the creation of the protectorate were declared,