Czech nobility in Nazi occupation (small thought) © Zdeněk Hazdra
English Translation
The Czech Republican society welcomed Dohalské not as members of the Count's state, but as individuals close to her. František Dohalský worked in the Diploma Math Services in London and Vienna. Antonín Dohalsky, as Archbishop's Chancellor, sought good relations with the state. He was clearly in favour of the election of Edvard Beneš as he was convinced not only of the need for continuity of Masaryk's presidency, but also of the increasing international tensions of the mid-thirties of the 20th century, that only democratic order would guarantee the free development of the country and thus the Catholic Church. The youngest Zdeněk as an editor for the so-called Lidové noviny helped to co-create the ideal climate of the first republic and through numerous contacts with the representatives of the Castle and the high Catholic clergy he personalized for ©Lidovky © invaluable information source. The actions and actions of the Dohals during the Nazi occupation then reflect their opinional, moral and social political integrity: whether it is the signature of František Bořka-Dohalský under the September Declaration of the Czech Nobles from 1939 (through him and his son Jiří and de facto the whole ro-din) or the involvement of all three siblings in the resistance and the consequences of this. Both about them and about other similar-minded families bring an interesting picture of the German security authorities' report, which would be published on a separate study and which cannot be left behind not only with regard to the nobility of the protectorate history. For example, the German Security Service (SD) did not escape the meetings of Zdeněk Bořka-Dohalský with members of the former Strakov Academy in Prague, with whom he secretly met at regular intervals in the closed lounge of one Prague hospitality, where he had the main word.15 Dohal-skému bindings were woven from various resistance fibers. In November 1939 he met through Hubert Masařík, head of the Cabinet of Foreign Minister František Chvalkovsky, with an American diplomat working in Prague by George Kennan. Since then, they have remained in touch, and therefore Kennan's reports, sent from the Protectorate to Washington, rely on the poison- nak on information drawn from us from around Elias, both on information made up of- 15 BRANDES, Detlef: Czechs under German protectorate. Occupy Policy, Collabo-race and Resistance 1939©1945, Prague 1999, p. 570.