Declaration of Czech and Moravian Nobility — full text and autograph signatures (January 1939) Page 2 · 2 of 7
Declaration by Czech and Moravian nobles © full text and autographs of signatories (January 1939)
English Translation
And they were never alienated from their tribe, and they must be counted to a nation today whose blood is flowing through their veins. In addition to this purely domestic nobility, the course of history has moved and many families of foreign origins have settled on the territory of the Czech State, but not only German. These families, to whom they were assigned a place in the House, whose meetings took place in Pra- z, Brno and Olomouc, and to whom the highest-stenish power, which associated them with permanent administrative relations with the dem, merged in the regions of the Czech language with the nation so that their different origins could not change anything to their undisputed membership of the national community. Similarly, some, in the German environment living descendants of Czech families, lavish with purely Czech names and derived from the oldest blood of Czech, claim to a nation of Germans, who are very willing to recognize them as their sons and in their Czech origin they do not see any pre-breeds. We believe that just as we grant these individuals the right to report to a nation in the midst of which they live, who they have chosen and who accepts them as their members, so the parties of the other will not be members of noble families, here resident, denied rights to claim to the Czech nation with which their ancestors lived after