The idea seems to be that Czech nobility could be encouraged to support the government, which walked a delicate line between obeying the Nazis and covertly opposing them.Ī monument of land reform in Czechoslovakia, photo: ŠJů, Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But that’s getting ahead a bit too far. There was a slight change later in which a fine was added to punish those who broke the law but also allowing the use of noble titles bestowed abroad.Īnd in September 1939 the Czech government of the Nazi dominated Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia actually allowed noble titles to be used again. Tainted, rightly or wrongly, by the Habsburg Empire and its plethora of aristocratic rules and titles, the newly former Czechoslovakia banned the use of aristocratic titles in December 1918. We’re talking here about the Kolowrats, Czerníns, Schwarzenbergs, Sternbergs, Lobkowicz’s, Nostitz family, Colleredo-Mannsfelds and Kinský’s.īut while the stone and bricks and mortar monuments have been a constant often going back a thousand years, Czech noble families have had much more mixed fortunes over the last 100 years or so. The Library of Congress has several hundred books from Adolf Hitler's Library.Schwarzenberg family tree, photo: Public Domain Many Czechs may be familiar with the names of those families since their palaces are often dotted around Prague and their country homes and castles remain landmarks across the country. A number of very interesting black and white photograph credited to Heinrich Hoffmann. Hitler befreit Sudetenland A glowing review of Hitler's triumphant entry into the Sudentenland as seen and reported from inside the Nazi Propaganda Machine with an introduction by Konrad Heinlein. Mit Hitler in Polen, a photo book with a plastic cover. General Wilhelm Keitel was tried and hanged at Nuremberg for war crimes. Mit Hitler In Polen, a photo book with a pigskin cover. General Foertsch was Assistant Chief of Staff of the German Twelfth Army. Kriegs Kunst: Heute und Morgen, by Hermann Foertsch, Oberst Der Generalstabes. Schönerer was an early organizer of the Nazi Party. Schönerer, Georg Ritter von: Die Entwicklung des Alldeutschtumes in der Ostmark, a Vienna 1914 publication with gold gilded pages. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, has a badly torn dust jacket, printed in 1934. Wie erhalte ich meine Stimme gesund?, Guftau Rippich, contains the Führer's bookplate an eagle, a swastika, and oak branches between the words EX LIBRIS and Adolf Hitler on the inside cover. Im Licht by Paul Eickens, contains the Führer's bookplate an eagle, a swastika, and oak branches between the words EX LIBRIS and Adolf Hitler on the inside cover. The book about self healing contains the Führer's bookplate an eagle, a swastika, and oak branches between the words EX LIBRIS and Adolf Hitler on the inside cover. Apparently the original cover was removed by the author and the birthday cover was bound. Kirchhoff: This book “To Our Führer on his Birthday” is the cover of the book Heilung. Un Unserm Führer zum Geburstag – Heilung ganz von selbst ohne Heilmethode rein natürlich ohne Behandlung und Selbstbehandlung, ohne Verbrauch von Mitteln und ohne Apparate. Signed the Professor, this apparently is Peter Fröhlich. The flyleaf contains an inscription praising the Führer and his work for Germany and admiration for his struggle. Goebbels”.Īus Deutschem Schrifttum Und Deutscher Kulture authored by Peter Fröhlich has the Führer's bookplate an eagle, a swastika, and oak branches between the words EX LIBRIS and Adolf Hitler on the inside cover. The inscription: “Meine Führer in admiration and gratitude Dr. The above book, Angriff authored by Joseph Goebbels contains on the flyleaf a one line written inscription addressed to My Führer and signed by Dr. Army Airforce, took 11 books from Adolf Hitler’s Berghof library, near Berchtesgaden.