English Translation

In the first two statements (not touching the list of signatories), the nobles, with the words of their spokesperson František Kinsky (from Kostelce nad Orlicí), stood up for the integrity of the historical borders of the Czech state and expressed their loyalty and loyalty to the country at the highest level of risk. In the third of them, more than 80 nobles (whether by their own signature or on behalf of another member of the family) were clearly declared to the Czech nation and its language, although not all signatories were of Czech origin and not each of the signed personally identified with the Czech koslovak state, its form and state establishment. They were associated with the feeling and belonging to the country and its population, with which they shared their fates for centuries, and the opposition to Nazi occupation power. In this opinion, too, the political division of the nobility of the Czech countries reflected in two camps, which were created during Austria-Hungary. The state nobility, whose adherents agreed to the above mentioned act, once demanded the equalisation of the Czech state within the framework of the Habsburg Mo-narchy and politically supported the efforts of Czech civil political representation. constitutional nobles - those defending a more centralist arrangement of the Pundana Empire under the Austrian-Hungarian settlement of 1867. In the knowledge of aristocratic cosmopolitanism and taking into account the claims of František Schwarzenberg, one of the protagonists of those declarations from 1938 and 1939, that the nobility ma-ering the domain either in the purely Czech or in a purely German environment defended the political interests of its inhabitants, the constitutional nobility can be considered as pro-German and state-law for Czech-minded. While, schematically speaking, the previously constitutional nobility has now adopted in its majority the great German ideas that still survived in the German environment after the finished Great War and once again grew stronger with the rising Nazi socialist movement (which does not mean that it always had to confess Nazism led by Adolf Hitler), the former state-law nobility was set up in one of the most difficult periods of the Czech nation 20. With this step, she returned to the history of Czech society as a social-political layer de facto and de-iure, as Elias' protectorate government decided in September 1939 to renew the use of the noble Titus Agreement, Prague 2008, p. 37©51; or TÝŽ: In the sign of three declarations. Czech nobility at the time of the threat of the Czechoslovak state. History and present, 2009, no. 1, s. 26©29.