Rudolf a Humprecht Czerninové z Chudenic. Oběti heydrichiády z řad české šlechty
Rudolf and Humprecht Czernin of Chudenice. Victims of the Heydrich Terror among the Czech Aristocracy

Summary/Abstract: During the Nazi occupation the Czech aristocracy suffered from a wave of repressions. Not only did they affect the property of many aristocratic families whose pro-Czech attitude was an unforgivable crime in the eyes of the Nazis, but some lives were lost, too. Among those arrested and sentenced to death during the second martial law was Humprecht Czernin, a member of the old Czech nobility. His fate was therefore the same as that of Count Antonín Bořek-Dohalský and his brother Zdeněk, who were arrested by the Gestapo during the first martial law in the autumn of 1941. Shortly before that, the repressions also affected Humprecht’s brother Rudolf, whose extensive land was confiscated in February 1942 because of his political attitudes, and he was subsequently arrested. Even though he did not lose his life like his brother, he spent the rest of the war in a Nazi prison.

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