You Want to Rob Me... - Property persecution of Adolf Schwarzenberg during and after the war
You Want to Rob Me... - Property persecution of Adolf Schwarzenberg during and after the war

Author(s): Dita Jelínková
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Studies in violence and power, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Czechoslovakia; Czech nobility; Adolf Schwarzenberg; property persecution; 1947; Nazi regime;
Summary/Abstract: The life story of Adolf Schwarzenberg reflects the complex fates of members of the Czech nobility in the 20th century. Their relationship to the Czechoslovak Republic, in which they lost their privileges and a substantial part of their property, developed gradually, but they did not hesitate to show their loyalty in the most dangerous times. During Nazi occupation Adolf Schwarzenberg was punished with confiscation of his property for his fidelity to the Czech state and nation and for his resistance to the Nazi regime. Therefore, he had a deep sense of grievance that his property was not returned to him after the Second World War. In 1947 the property of the Schwarzenberg primogeniture was expropriated for the second time, but this time by the state for which Adolf Schwarzenberg did so much in difficult times.

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