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40 2014/04 memory and history of the study and articles Dvořák reported after his release from Terezín at the Gestapo in Cologne, where he was accepted by the head of the Feustel office.51 After the return to Zasmuk he was about three months in the state of the sick © reportedly treated for the consequences of imprisonment, specifically from which diseases acquired in Terezin. This lasted until spring 1943. After his release, he returned to Hlušice for one day, but the German administrator Bauer refused to give him a job because of his connection with the former owner. Dvořák replaced several employees in the management of the property confiscated by Bodenamt and subsequently got to Ratbora, belonging to the originally Jewish family Mandelík, which was managed by the forced administrator Werner Würfel. He remained there until November 1943, when, based on the letter from Bodenamt, he was moved to the fields of Vilémov, which was expropriated property of another nobleman, Rajský z Dubnice. His direct over-managed was German coerced administrator Ernst Seibt and the supreme superior Vincent Röder, who had his seat in the castle of Smernberg originally owned by the Smerbergs. He worked here until mid-April 1945, when he went back to Zásmuk. Even the last Dvořák worked in Vilémov is associated with the activities of the Gestapo, which led to the destruction of the staff of the guerrilla group Major Fomin.52 Dvoøák's activity during the war did not go after the liberation of the attention investigated by the Czech authorities. He was imprisoned for six months on suspicion of working with the Gestapo and threatening the Czechoslovak Ob-Chans. In 1945-1948 he was prosecuted at the Out-of-Follow People's Court (MLS) in Kut-ná Hora. However, due to lack of evidence, the charge was acquitted. The issue with the liquidation of Czernina was built as if Dvořák were the victim himself and just by chance he wasn't fighting- out.53 In 1946 Dvoøák moved his family to the village of Královice, where he worked in forestry, until 1956 when he returned to Zá-muk. Here he 15. On January 1974, a subpoena for a renewed trial for the criminal charge of the attempted murder was received. After the establishment of a Czechoslovak government commission for the prosecution of war criminals in March 1965, the investigation into the activities of the Prague, par- Dubic, Benešovský and cologne Gestapo began in February 1968. Three years later, Paul Feustel was found and apprehended in the GDR. In November 1972, a trial was initiated.Feustel was convicted of his crimes and sentenced to death by the Municipal Court for Great Berlin on 11 December 1972.54 Feustal's testimony led to the arrest of František Dvořák. Another report from the Kolin Gestapo Horn, which convicted Dvořák of the collaboration in 1946, was again taken into account. So how could events leading to the arrest and condemnation of Humphrecht Czernin with the greatest truthfulness? According to Feustel's statements and other written materials, during the 1974 investigation, it was claimed that the Nazis were interested in the property of the Czerni family. In May 1942 Feustel was instructed by the commander of the Prague Gestapo Geschke somehow to arrange for Czernin from Hlušice to stand before a martial trial. Feustell said: I remember that in the middle of June 1942 the then head of the Gestapa headquarters called me to Cologne and ordered me by then unknown Count Czernín to be put before the martial court Prague. On my objection that I have no aggravating materials against the Count, Geschke replied to me that the matter is very urgent, and if we have no materials, we must make something up. In any case, Czernín must be removed in the shortest time. From this instruction of Geschke it was evident 51 © He asked me how I had been in Terezín, and I answered him that when it came to work, essentially well, of course there was little food. After this conversation, which did not concern another, I was taken to another room, where there were two Gestapos, whom I reported to, as well as a prisoner. These [...] have introduced an interview with me in the sense that, when I am now released, I have to keep quiet about all the circumstances relating to my conviction and my stay in Terezín and my investigation in Cologne, further that I must report to them if I learn anything that someone is doing something against the empire, and that I need to report every shift of my employment and residence. 52 Dvořák was to participate in the discovery of her whereabouts.More information about her Jelínek, Zdeněk: Nazi occupation administration in Kolín region in 1939©1945, p. 199©227. 53 © MLS's file to František Dvoøák did not survive and was not available even during the renewal of the investigation. He was supposedly to be lost during the move-up. 54 © According to available data Paul Feustel was executed on 8 May 1973. See Liste von in der DDR hingerichteten Personen, http://de.wikipedia. org/wiki/Liste_von_in_der_DDR_hingerichteen_Personen (cited on 6.10.2014). 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