English Translation

47 Perhaps the kitten's attack was accompanied by a true and not deliberate ignorance © or, rather, ideological blindness. More importantly, however, it illustrates the contemporary atmosphere in which the company dealt not only with the collaboratorial system and the unity of the confi dents of the Nazi regime (experience of the Extraordinary People's Courts were already working fully and the main trial of the National Court with the successive protectorate government was being prepared), but at the same time, they kept getting more and more loudly informed about each other, i.e. People who mostly survived the war in the twilight and now demanded a radical settlement with the past and its actors. Pro-stor opened up to them in the post-February Czechoslovakia. It was not long before the only son of František Bořka-Dohalský Jiří, a lawyer employed in Beneš's presidential office, was sentenced to 17 years in prison in the design process with a group of other colleagues for alleged high-ranking and threat to the security of the President of the Republic, from which he served an equal ten. His sons were then denied any proper higher education than apprentices. If the communist regime liquidated private property and the collectives- took farmland, the Nazis were going to Germanize the area as soon as they won the war. Just before death, Reinhard Heydrich uva-lit was forced to administer the property of the main exponents of the Czech nobility (Kinský, Belcredi, Sternberg, Schwarzenberg, Lobkowicz, Czernin, Kolowrat etc.), whose confiscated land he intended to use for the purposes of German colonization. In his letter to Martin Bormann of 16 May 1942 he pointed to their aristocratic ties in the Reich, ©Marce and Hungary. According to Heydrich's opinion, these nobles were to use their German names in his eyes to harm Germany, especially in the spy area. The decision was, among other things, a reference to the declaration of loyalty to the Czechoslovak state, which, on behalf of the Czech nobility, was declared to President Beneš in September 1938.27. A total of three aristocratic declarations really become a milestone in the relationship between nation and nobility. Ancient cosmopolitan nobility is clearly defined in them at the beginning of the war: the nation, the country and also politically opposed to Nazism. The Czech nation thus discovers in critical moments its nobility, which shares with it a war life filled with the effort to restore the Czechoslovak state. And symbolically, 27 See Heydrich's letter to Martin Bormann of 16 May 1942, a copy of the personal family's archives of Th eobald Czernin (Dymokury).