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

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English Translation

48 literally in an aristocratic spirit, the final hours of war flow on the Czech territory, when Lieutenant Karel Schwarzenberg and his half brother Norbert Kinsky as participants in the National Uprising in Chi-Melice are involved in negotiating the composition of the arms of the last resistance SS units, led by the nobleman, Count Carl von Pückler. One epoch went into history. And the Czech nobles, as part of the Czech nation, helped open up his new, but for her a quite fatal histo-rical stage, which had her undoubted merit completely erased from the nation-her memory. Fortunately, this did not happen, although in the attitudes of our society to aristocracy there are still stereotypes of the past, clichés and numerous non-consciousness, which place the descendants of noble families in the position of something foreign, which does not belong to us. But this is a subject for different considerations, less historical, but all the more personal for each of us.