English Translation

19 Adolf Hitler of 20 July 1944, following the general wave of arrests "Aktion Gewitter" (also "Action Gitter" ). To his second wife Alix Czernin (1907-1979) it was revealed that her maternal grandfather, Eduard Oppenheim (1831-1909), was considered a Jew according to the Nuremberg laws. On the occasion of his marriage with Amalie Heuser, he converted to a Protestant faith. In the census of 17 May 1939, Alix Czernin was listed in the so-called "Supplementary Card" as "NNJN" . Alix Kzernin (second marriage) was married to Roland Faber-Castell. This marriage was divorced on 17 December 1935. In the divorce proceedings, Alix Czernin was represented by lawyer Scanzoni, who – as mentioned above – played a role in the attempted sale of the present painting to Philipp Reemtsma. The divorce judgment, which was pronounced after the entry into force of the Nuremberg laws, does not mention in his statement any Jewish descent of Alix Kzernin. In later testimony, however, Alix Czernin stressed that this divorce was carried out at the instigation of NSDAP services. Indeed, surveys by the Nazi Party on Alix czernin from 1936 are known. At that time the NSDAP-Ortsgruppe Stein bei Nürnberg (the residence of the Faber-Castell family) asked the district management Starnberg for information about the effort Alix Czernin (then Faber Castell) makes for her life. In the context of a custody dispute at the Landgericht Nürnberg-Fürth over their children from the marriage with Roland Faber-Castell, the copy is dated 29 November 1935 in Starnberg in a villa for a rent of peace of RM 1,530,-- and had a small BMW and six domestic servants. In February 1940 – a report by the Gestapo, the Nuremberg-Fürth State Police Department, in which it was classified as "politically unreliable"; it follows from this report that the Gauleitung Franken became known that it had carried into the population "unrest and by a wasteful lifestyle endangered the existence of the Faber-Castell company ( whose headquarters were in Stein near Nuremberg). Furthermore, it is clear that family members had submitted an application for an abortion in order to deprive her of the possibility to dispose of the property and it was reported that she had not been admitted to the NSDAP because of her Jewish descent. Finally, the State Police Department reported that the Jewish ancestry of Alix Czernin in Nuremberg had already been discussed in the press before the Nazi seizure of power and that an anti-Semitic slogan had been painted on the entrance to the castle in Stein. The State Police Division concluded that AlixCzernin