Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 746, sig. 110-5/35 (damaged)

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- 3 - 73 In February 1942, when the German administration of Zvang was imposed on the nobles involved in the declaration of loyalty, the three above-mentioned friends of Spanyis tried with his help to thwart the planned measures. v.Spanyi had learned of the imminent access by Indiscretion 7 of the Imperial Protector's acting official. In this way, Count Heinrich Dobrzensky could still be granted Hungarian nationality in time, where the German scale was made illusory. The same efforts for Count Rudolf Czernin could be prevented in time. In both stables, v. Spanyi had exposed himself to German services. The forced administration imposed on Count Zdenko Kinsky was complicated by the marriage of the children of Kinsky with foreign nationals. Spanyis and his connection to these persons, clearly appearing as hostile to Germany by their behaviour, is the fact that he invited his wife to a lunch shortly after the conviction of Count Rudolf Czernin for radio crimes. Spanyi joins his friends and acquaintances in Catholic-legitimistic-monarchist imprint for the future. With Prince Schwarzenberg, who is called the "King of Bohemia" especially in clerical and legitimist czech circles, he has a particularly close friendly relationship. Schwarzenberg is now considered to be the centre of Catholic-monarchist ten-dence in the Protectorate. While the nobility of the Czech people, such as Prince Sehwarzenberg and Count Schönborn, has, despite all national efforts, an emphasis on national thinking and feeling, the German representatives of this group are distinguished by their natural instinctlessness. In addition to his German nationality, he was also a Hungarian citizen of Windisch-Graetz shortly after the invasion of German troops in Hungary by the Hungarian Consulate General and asked for information about the events in Hungary. He identified himself with the Hungarian cause and spoke of rumors that the Germans had invaded "with us",