Naší ctí je věrnost. Konec druhé světové války v Evropě aneb Anabáze tří šlechticů v květnu 1945
Loyalty is our honour the end of the Second world war in Europe or the anabasis of three aristocrats in may 1945

Summary/Abstract: The last shots of the Second World War were fired on the territory of Czechoslovakia or the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, as it was then. At a time when German forces were capitulating throughout Europe, tens of thousands of Germans tried to flee to the West ahead of the advancing Red Army. They had one goal in mind: to be captured by the Americans. The demarcation line ran through the village of Čimelice and this was the place where the commander of SS units in the Protectorate, Carl Friedrich Graf von Pückler-Burghaus, had retreated to. This study describes the fate of German commanders and their units, the Czech negotiators headed by the aristocrats Count Václav Norbert Kinský and Prince Karl VI of Schwarzenberg, as well as that of the resistance fighters and Allied soldiers who eventually surrounded and occupied Čimelice. Light is also shed on the subject of von Pückler-Burghaus’s bitter end and the general’s resting place, which has not been known until now.

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