English Translation

SS sichetichtsdienst RF4 Prag-Bubentich, 7 May 1941. SD section Prague Sachfenweg telex 77444 B 1 SA 43 b 4 Secret! .) To the Reichssicherheitshauptamt MCIMk - Amt III B - s//-1 Berlin. 2.) To Mr. State Secretary at the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, 4-Group Leader K.H. Fr a n k, PraBe Betr.: Bohemian-Mihrischer Adel. The political aristocracy of the Protectorate did not emerge in the last few months outwardly; however, the attempts of these circles to actively engage in the political action during the government crisis in April d.y. and to achieve a resolution of their own interests showed clearly that the inactivity observed was only an apparent one. In the intervening period, a certain shift has taken place in the le- gitimistic top functions from Bohemian to Moravian nobility representatives, so that instead of the previous year's top position of the Schwarzenberge and Lobkowicze, the two Moravian exponents Count Strachwitz and Count Belcredi can be addressed as the political determining factors of the local nobility. Hugo Graf S t r a c h w i t z from Zdounek was appointed to the Committee at the enlargement of the NG Committee in June 1939 in place of the outgoing Bohemian prince Lob- kowicz. A few months later T8-344