English Translation

38 - 15 - especially from the German nobility emerged early auch deutschbe-wissen personalities and have been at times, as during the cabinet Auersperg the politics of the monarchy and also later the activity of individual people-conscious and politically clear-sighted men of the German-Bohemian nobility. This is particularly true of the era of the Dutch German movement of Konrad Henlein, which emerged from its ranks in Germany and abroad, with full help and cooperation. e The founding of the Czechoslovak Republic has brought a precautionous victory to the most radical forty-eight tendencies. Newly-Jacobinian democratism decreed the abolition of the nobility, but its position was hit more strongly by the elimination of the state parliament with its curia system. Dgr's blow, however, was the great land expropriation carried out by the republic under the slogan of the correction of the injustice of l62o. Thus, the private base of the aristocracy was most circumcised. The official role of the Bohemian nobility was ended with the nobility-politics of the republic. Of course not the possibilities flowing from its social position. Although attempts were made to bring the homines novi of the Republic together with the men ancienne regime. - Lockhardt reports in his Central European book of an exhilarating attempt of this kind, on the part of the then English envoy. - And despite the kicking of the foot, in September 1938 still one Czech aristocratic genders gave a declaration of loyalty to the republic. In the plan and in the logic of the revolutionary reform of our continent, which is mainly based on the re-establishment of a national order within and between the individual peoples, there has been no longer any room for action by the state. If this is to be shown the longer the more, the law of the shaping historical forces has its unrelenting validity and Bohemia is one of the countries of Europe where feudal violence was primarily decisive until the world war. Therefore, knowledge and study of the Bohemian aristocracy is still the key to understanding the education and nature of the political conditions of this area. .