English Translation

generations sharing both rights and obligations, good and bad, even though families were not always after the sword of the origin of the Czech. Inherited membership of the national community is not determined by the circumstances of the day, but is caused by the reality of the community of life, political, cultural and economic cooperation, the unity of history, fates and responsibility for future generations of the nation. The Czech nation, which was solemnly guaranteed by the leader of the German and imperial chancellor of its national sovereignty, can certainly consider as its right and its duty to claim with all the emphasis that doubt should arise from the fact that it has a Czech nobility as its component, which has never been separated from the national body and will never be separated by its doing. During the last census in the German Reich, membership of nationality was based on voluntary confession. The relevant administrative provisions are based on the principle that everyone is a member of the nation with which they feel connected and to which they are claiming. In full agreement with the German nation, which asks all its members to carry out all obligations towards national community, the Czech people and the Czech nobles are convinced of their belongings.