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

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63 - 17 - relaxed. But especially from the German nobility early also German-conscious personalities. and have temporarily, as during the cabinet Aiersperg, been the politics of the monarchy and also later the activity of one of the people-conscious and politically clear-sighted men of the German-Bohemian nobility. This is particularly true of Konrad Henlein's Epoch of the Sudeten German Movement, which, from its ranks in Germany and abroad, produced valuable help and collaboration. However, the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic has brought a precarious victory to the most radical forty-eight tendencies. The New-Jacobin Democratism decreed the abolition of the nobility, but his position was made stronger by the elimination of the state parliament with its curia system. However, the decisive vision was the great ground expropriation carried out by di@Repuebgik under the slogan of the correction of the injustice of l62o. In this way, the private base of the nobility was most severely circumcised. With the aristocracy - nobility policy of the republic, the official role of the Bohemian nobility ended. Of course, not the possibilities flowing from his 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 footstep, some Czech aristocratic Näußzrx genders in September l938 issued a declaration of loyalty for the Republink. - 18 -