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41 on the resistance movement, as it is evident from the stylization of reports.16 However, this did not end Dohal's resistance contacts abroad. Willy Th urn- Taxis, a prominent figure of the Austrian anti-Nazi resistance and a member of its central organization ©O5© (whose name was symbolized by the Österreich, because the pa-team letter of the alphabet is E, i.e. Oesterreich), maintained on one side the connection with Carl Goerdeler in Germany and on the other side with Boøk- -Dohalský in Prague. Josef Th urn-Taxis, Willy's sister, married Zdeněk's nephew Jiří.17 The wedding, led by the groom's uncle Antonín, was still the archbishop's chancellor in Prague Castle on 30th March 1940 and did not escape the interest of German information services. Ziemke, a representative of the Auswärtiges Amt, at the Office of the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Mo-rave, for the Berlin headquarters, says that the wedding flashed on the circles of the Czech society in which they crystallized the centers of spiritual resistance against the Empire. Ziemke continues to report: It shows also a close connection between the puppy part of the Earth's nobility and so-called. The castle handle, Beneš's most loyal supporters.18 Follows a summary of the activities and attitudes of the Dohals before World War I and during the first republic: in the eyes of the occupiers, the poison was a family, which in the days of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy fell due to its extreme Czech position into total insignificance and which also lost its 16 MASAŘÍK, Hubert: In the transformations of Europe, p. 348. 17 Srov. Luža, Radomír: Th e resistance in Austria 1938 ©1945, Minneapolis 1984, p. 37; WALTERSKIRCHEN, Gudula: Blaues Blut für Österreich. Adelige im Wider-stand gegen den Nationalsozialism, Wien-München 2000, p. 266. On the same page, the author presents several incorrect data in connection with some members of the House of Dohal. Josefi n husband Jiří Dohalský was never the administrator of Hradčany, but an official. After the occupation he worked as a lawyer in Beneš's presidential office. Zdeněk Boøek-Dohalský acted not as an MP but as a parliamentary member of the Lidové noviny. His brother Antonín was not a bishop, but an Archbishop's Chancellor and Holy Canon and was not murdered in Terezín concentration camp, for he was taken from there after a few weeks of imprisonment to Auschwitz, where he died under not quite clear circumstances. 18 National Archives (hereinafter referred to as NA), f. Kurt Ziemke, sign. 102-3/1, report of the representative Auswärtiges Amt at the Office of the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia headquarters to Berlin from 3 May 1940, attached entry from 8 April, p. 1.