After the war, he was proclaimed German and a Nazi collaborator, and the authorities in Votice withheld his family farmland for three years. Before the Communist Coup in 1948, he was denied his master's degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Following the Communist Coup, his inherited property, which had been returned to him by a court decision, was permanently confiscated. In 1949, he and his wife Jarmila managed to escape over the Šumava Mountains into West Germany. Later, they continued on to Great Britain where they received asylum and Harry finished his studies. They had a son named René Thomas.