Czech nobility in Nazi occupation (small thought) © Zdeněk Hazdra

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42 positions between the Czechs, then completely loyally fulfilling their duties. After the revolution of 1918, the Dohalians threw themselves into the arms of the Republican Czechoslovak establishment and because of it they did their career. In no case could the ratings here sound positive for any of Dohalsky. Antonín Dohalský is said to have been a known mediator between the cleric circles and Hrad. During the election, Beneš's president had his information to the Vatican and the influence of the Czech Catholic People's Party, which, as we know, formed a tongue on the scales, to contribute in a fine way to the election victory of Beneš. He owes his church career to the former Czechoslovak government and was also supported materially from the then-Czechoslovakia Foreign Ministry. According to the same report, the third of the Dohal brothers, Zdeněk, active as a journalist in the Lidové noviny, was Jewish-masaryk's supporter Stránský and in Beneš's organ Čes- to the word, a fanatical follower of Czechoslovak national socialists (i.e. Beneš's parties), he made propaganda trips in the company of the famous Fran Zemínová etc.19 In connection with František Dohalský, the father of that- they, among other things, points out the second marriage he had made with Věra Baxanto- va, widowed Víšková, whose first husband was the brother of the current pro-tokolar chief of state president Háha Dr. Vladimír Vísek. 20 In his rapport Ziemke pointed out the tendency of the high nobility to be more firmly organized and oriented in the sense of the Catholic Federation.The Czech branch of the Schwar- zenberg family, whose representatives attended the weddings, was to play a leading role. The German anti-torate authorities were concerned about the response, which in the Czech press was the wedding of Josef Th urn-Taxis and Jiří Bořek-Dohalský, because in its context- the emphasis was placed on the national ratio of nobility to the Czech nation. Moreover, it is very clear from the above mentioned report that the protectorate security-cost components carefully recorded all persons close to the first republic's power elite. Thanks to anti-Nazi attitudes and participation in the resistance, the Dohal brothers found themselves in the hands of the Gestapo. Their travels continued to the concentration camps. Antonín died in Auschwitz in September 1942 three months after his 19 Tamej, p. 1. 20 Temej, pp. 2