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33 Zdeněk Hazdra © Czech nobility in Nazi occupation (small thought) As if it were and yet not, one will think, if one begins to think deeper about the phenomenon of the nobility within the context of the history of Czech society 20th table- tí. The past, short, but with the speed of transformation and twists of all sorts of reorganized centuries of nobility defi has nitively removed her majestic, on the basis of the ancientity and origin of the determined position that she has enjoyed throughout the ages of European history. Gradually, she was pushed out of her positions through the 19th century by growing elites recruiting from civil vrs-tev. The origin of the Czechoslovak Republic was completed in the autumn of 1918. As a result, the nobility ceased to exist not only de facto, but also de jure. 61 The collections of laws and regulations of 10 December 1918 forbidding nobles to use their birth name with an accomplice or addition to the character of breeding, repealed also legally.1 The said legislative measure expressed the nature of the new state arrangement, i.e. The democratic republics, which guarantee equality for all their citizens without exception, were reflected in the conclusion of a somewhat conflict - the full relationship of Czech society to the nobility, which broke the world at the end of World War I. Monarchy, which has so far indicated aristocratic layers of natural order, collapsed as a house of cards. In Central European space, the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian power created states based on national principle. Czechoslovakia, formed by historical state law (Czech Republic) combined with the principle of national self-determination (Slovakia), was somewhat close to the aristocratic cosmopolitan- his spirit. Differently understood patriotism of the nobles also distanced them from civil circles in the long term. It did not take them linguistically and ethnically, 1 See Collection of Laws and Regulations of the Czechoslovak State in 1918, Act No. 61 of 10 December 1918, which abolishes the aristocracy, orders and titles, Prague 1918, p. 50.