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Farmers who were displaced from certain zones of the country. And just as the system of trust administration of Jewish and Czech industrial and commercial property, values were accumulated that were to serve as the basis for the Germanization of the land after the final victory. With a unique document from this time I was able to add my source material only recently. It comes from the documentation archive of the Office of the Reich Protector and was found after the war during the sighting of German archive holdings in Prague and played to Uncle Leopold Sternberg in photo shoot. From the legacy of his sister Sophie Radetzky it came into my hands. "Secret Reichssachen! Eileig! To Herr Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, Führer Hauptquartier. Subject: Expropriation of the Czech nobility. Dear Pg. Bormann, according to my last report, after confiscation of the possessions of ten of the main exponents of the Czech nobility (namely: Kinsky, Belcredi, Sternberg, Schwarzenberg, Lobkowicz, Czernin, Kolowrat, Strachwitz, etc.) I initiated the compulsory administration. 50,000 ha, which in the future will be of great benefit to German emigration and colonization. The above-mentioned gentlemen, and with them some others, are among those intellectual heretics who, by exploiting their German name and their noble relations in the Reich, in the Ostmark and in Hungary, are particularly harmful to us, especially in terms of espionage. By the way, it is they who, thanks to their social relations with ambassadors of peoples (depending on Reich Minister Neurath), were informed of many prepared measures, spread them and prevented their implementation. The reason why I feel compelled to do so was a confession of loyalty which these aristocrats addressed to Beneš in the name of the Czech nobility on 17 September 1938. I rejected all attempts at intervention made by the Reich in favour of these aristocrates, in particular by the State Councillor Count Goltz (whose name always occurs) ..... I draw with German greeting, your Reinhard Heydrich, Prague, May 16, 1942 SS-Obergruppenführer." In the case of my aunt Therese Mensdorff-Pouilly, born Sternberg, the German colonization was carried out immediately and consistently. Their rule Jemniště was confiscated and acquired by the party comrade Danek von der Esse, whose former possession was in the area of the military training ground of the Waffen-SS near Beneschau and therefore had to give way to higher interests. Within a few days she had to leave her residence in Jemniště and move to Heinrichstal to a lonely house on the edge of the forest, which was her property until now and in