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45 me with claims that the Czech nation actually lacked its nobility in modern history. At least for the Protectorate period it does not apply in my opinion. During the twenty-year period of the first Czechoslovak state, the modern Czech national aristocracy was formed23, which was reflected in the three declarations of part of the Earth's nobility from 1938 and 1939 - the last of September 1939, and in the involvement of a number of nobles in the pro-Tinacist resistance. The hopeful process demolishing mutual intellect between the nobility and the nation, linking the nobles to the national organism, was in the future disturbed by the uncompletable losses suffered by the democratic elites in the fight against the Nazis and which weakened them for the impending clash with the communist totalitarianism, which looked at the nobles as a primordial enemy. The national and class resistance of the nobles also aroused in Hitler. The leader's aversion to conservatives, who never fully accepted him among themselves, although any of them shared his great German plans, culminated in the failed assassination of July 20, 1944. At that time he did not hear of a successful class fight on the left, but he was not equally deceived on the right. However, the general settlement of the nobles' accounts had to wait until the postwar period.24 The noble community began to disappear from the Czech lands with the dying- my shots of World War II. In the first days of peace, the German (mostly pro-Nazi) nobles left their centuries-old residences, which had been confiscated by the president-ském decrees, and left along with their comrades outside the borders of the restored Czechoslovakia. But perhaps few expected soon to nationalize and confiscate property without compensation to those nobles who remained loyal to the Czechoslovak state, and of whom few were involved in the fight against Hitler's aggressors. After February 1948, the Czech nobles were before the election: to remain in their native country and to risk further persecution in addition to the loss of property, or to go to exile, where, along with those other refugees from Communist Czechoslovakia, Max Lobkowicz, František Schwarzenberg, Jindřich Kolowrat-Krakovský25 23 Srov. KARÁK, Zdeněk: The Czech National Aristocracy in the 20th century as a social layer. The role of the First Republic in shaping the national identity of the Czech aristocracy (Short Thinking).In: Study on Social History, St. 7, Opava 2001, p. 243©259. 24 KERSHAW, Ian: The story of Operation Valkyrie, Prague 2009, p. 62©63. 25 About Max Lobkowicz, František Schwarzenberg and Jindřich Kolowrat, there is no corresponding monograph e.