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

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The Nazis executed Zdeněk after more than three years of imprisonment in the Prague Pankrác prison in the Lesser Fortress in Terezín in February 1945. Only the oldest František lived to see the end of the war, who after three years spent in Dachau for a short time (1945©1949) returned to the diploma-thic services © became the first postwar Czechoslovak envoy in Vienna.21 Dohalské brought to the resistance their relationship not only to the country and the nation, but at the same time the link with the first republic's ruling elite and the acceptance of the ideal- him towards the direction of the Czechoslavic state, which in the case of nobility was not quite common. Jindřich Count Kolowrat-Krakovský (1897©1996) was among such exceptions.In the 20 years between the war he paid for successful business- le. He represented the syndicate of Czechoslovak engineering abroad and famous for his progressive views on the social issue, which he successfully introduced into the vota of his estates in Týnec near Klatov and in Dianaberg near Přimda. He wrote to Peroutk's presence, lectured for the Workers' Academy, went to the Club of Presents and to the Táfl round. In times of Nazi occupation he joined the resistance, among other things as a co-worker of the Parsifal group, formed over- seriously from the territory of former employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Parsiphalovs, with whom Zdeněk Boøek-Dohalský and his wife Anna were also in contact, provided practically the entire war with a news link between the domestic democratic resistance movement and the London exile.22 In it was actively performed by another nobleman Max Prince Lobkowicz (1888© 1967), already in the first Republic a member of the Czechoslovak diplomatic mission in the UK and during the years of World War II the Ambassador at the Holy-Cube Court. Even in his case the loyalty of the country and the nation was supported by republicism and ties to the castle environment. Ideal thinking and certain definitions within the aristocratic circles also underline the respect that the above-mentioned three nobles received as for the first 21 To the figure Antonín Bořka-Dohalský see HAZDRA, Zdeněk: Antonin Count Boøek-Dohaly of Doha (1889©1942). In: MAREK, Pavel HANUŠ, Jiří (eds.): Personality in the Church and politics. Czech and Slovak Christians in the 20th century, Brno 2006, p. 374©387; a comprehensive study on the fates of the Dohal brothers under the Nazi occupation see TÝŽ: Nobleists of democracy: František, Antonín and Zde- něk Bořek-Dohalský. In: Terezín Lists, Vol. 35, Terezin Memorial 2007, p. 60©83. 22 Srov. POKORNÝ, Jindřich: Parsifal. The fates of one democratic resistance group in 1938 ©1945 with postwar actuary, Prague 2009.