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We refer to the somewhat fuller statement on Forced Labour
of K.H. FRANK, interrogated by Col. Dr. ECER on May 30th, 1945
at Wiesbaden.
(5) Other Spoliations.,
Aryanisation was completed in November 1942 when the prop-
erty of all Jews who had emigrated or been deported, had been
officially confiscated by the Reich.
Property was confiscated by virtue of sentences of illegal courts.
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The confiscation of the property of "dangerous and politically
suspicious persons" was another legal title of German robbery.
Exiles were deprived of Czechoslovak nationality and their
property was forfeited.
The property of all the many organisations dissolved by the Nazis
was confiscated.
(6) Conclusion.
The total sum of economic spoliation from 1938 till 1945 is
estimated by economic and financial experts at 200 milliards Czecho-
slovak crowns. This figure is not an official one as the investigations
as to the total amount will take a great deal of time. Experts think
that 50°/o of Czech national wealth was stolen and robbed by the
German invaders.
IV. WAR ON JEWS.
The Nation's attitude towards
the Jews is the measure of
its cultural maturity.
T. G. MASARYK.
(1) The Constitutional Law.
By their war against the Jews the Nazis violated a fundamental
law in force in the Czechoslovak Republic, the Constitutional Law,
8 128 of which runs: "All citizens of the Czechoslovak Republic are
fully equal to each other before the law and they enjoy the same
civic and political rights without regard to their race, language or
religion."
(2) After Munich.
In the ceded areas all measures against the Jews already in
operation in Germany, were immediately applied.