English Translation

Alix Czernin was exposed to anti-Semitic hostility by National Socialists, but not to political persecution. The political persecution that Jaromir Czernine claimed after 1945, immediately after the occupation of Czechoslovakia, is not understandable. On April 11, 1940, a request for membership of the NSDAP was made by the local group leader, who had been a member of the Sudeten German Party since May 11, 1938, and since May 1, 1938. In March 1939, existing memberships in the local victim ring of the NSDAP, in the NSFK (National Socialist Air Corps) and in the DAF (German Labor Front) pointed out clearly against a persecution. However, no further explanation is required that the (after a further examination in 1943) rejection of this request cannot be regarded as an act of persecution. Nor could it be found that Jaromir Czernin received a "gauverweis" or that his estate Marschendorf had been withdrawn from him by the Nazi regime. On the contrary, the documents show that although the Reichenau State Forestry Office had requested the establishment of a temporary administrator in 1943 because of (alleged) economic maladministration, it had finally provided for a donation of the good to its children from their first marriage when granting an annual apanage to be financed from the profit of the property. The court proceedings since 1943 did not reach a conclusion, so the donation was not carried out. It is clear that Jaromir Czernin was detained in the Linz police prison from 22 August to 26 September 1944. The reasons for this could not be determined. The dates of the arrest and release suggest that the detention was in the course of the "Action Thunderstorm". As a result of the assassination of July 20, 1944, this action captured a wide, undifferentiated circle of persons suspected or actually related to political elites. Even if Jaromir Czernin had been involved in a resistance group at that time - a "Krassah" resistance group, which he called after 1945, could not be identified - there can be no connection between this arrest and the sale that took place almost four years earlier. Therefore, since neither Jaromir Czernin nor Alix Czernine belonged to the circle of systematically or individually prosecuted persons, it is necessary to examine whether, for reasons other than the sale as a void legal transaction, it has to be assessed in accordance with § 1 nullity law.