English Translation

5 - Prince Hanau at the time of the Republic was very unpopular among many Czechs because of a rather petty attitude in contact with the public, especially towards the city, and was concealed in the whole area, for example, as an "awesome miserliness", after the establishment of the protectorate, the sympathy for the prince obviously increased strongly again due to "his strong attitude". In more or less open talks, Czechs also admit that these nobles unexpectedly became strong supporters and enemies of the National Socialist system in political terms and that they could therefore still be of much use to the Czech people in the current very unclear political situation. However, this view and attitude of the Czech population was particularly strong towards Count Colloredo-M a n s. - f e l d in Sbirow, who, although several times declared himself to be German, was rejected because of his unwarranted behaviour, but this became unknown to the wider Czech population of this area. On the other hand, since it was generally known that this nobility belonged to Germanism, the attitude of the count in the Gaht region was discussed in a very triumphant manner and Colloredo-Mansfeld was presented as the most conscious Czech. Every utterance of the Count in this regard, such as the Er. seem in public with a Nß badge, was discussed with satisfaction and regarded as an obvious struggle of the count against Germanism. The eventual confiscation of his property is still a popular topic among the Czech population today, highlighting above all the German greed for robbery and injustice, in which one even goes so far as to distinguish between a loaned Czech farmer, who had some misdeeds to his debts and makes no difference to a German-born aristocracy, just because the latter did not know himself to be German. The action of the Land Office against other noblemen as well as the establishment of the compulsory administrations is generally considered exclusively in the political sense of the Czech Republic and is referred to as a down-to-earth footing of Germanism. In this way, "two flies at once" could be hit, because first of all, one achieved a break-in into the Czech space, and at the same time the annoying