English Translation

- 9 - Rooted in the predominantly purely Czech region for generations, the respective sexes feel that they are children of the country and members of the Czech nation; this is not only true today, but had already been so in times of the old Aussterreich. Nevertheless, their relations with German, with German cultural and spiritual life are and have been the most active, the relatives of the sexes have usually enjoyed a partly Czech partly German education and have mastered the German language as well as their Czech mother tongue, to which they profess from tradition, piety and conviction since alersher. Also because of the branched relations with the German nobility - several of the persons affected have German women - the Bohemian Moravian nobility was - also as far as he has known about the Czech nationality - always German= friendly. Thus, the nobility became the mediator between the two nations, which inhabit the Bohemians Moravian area. The Benes regime inevitably had to oppose the nobility because of the numerous measures that this regime has taken against the aristocracy and the landowners. / See East. De= law of amendment of the year l9l8, which established land reform, by which the large-scale property was often assigned about 50% of the area'at prices, which corresponded to about 1/6 to 1/10 of the true value, whereby the lease, especially the public-right=liche by patronates, remained unchanged. / The Benes rally, which appears to be the basis of the official measures, has not been signed, but has been presented in the presence of the parties concerned and has