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When the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by the
Americans in April 1945, 2,662 Czechoslovak prisoners were found
still alive.
In the concentration camp Oswiecim nearly 60,000 Czechoslovak'
nationals were prisoners in the period between April 1942 and
April 1944.
A report of October 1943 about Dachau concentration camp puts
the number of Czechoslovak nationals at 1,500. Perhaps the figure
given in that report for October 1943 about the other nationalities
may convey a picture of the proportion of Czech nationals valid for
other times:
Germans: 400 political
1,000 "Berufsverbrecher"
800 Workshy, anti-social and
Bible Students.
Other 400 Belgians
nationalities: 500 Frenchmen
300 Dutch
300 Norwegians
1,500 Czechs
800 Catholic Priests of variob
nationalities.
6,000 or more Poles and Russians.
Some 2,200 relatives of persons who took refuge mainly in Great
Britain were deported to the concentration camp at SvatoboEice in
Moravia and remained there during the whole time of occupation.
2. Criminal Courts.
(a) The People's Court (Volksgerichtshof)
The Czechoslovak Republic was, as pointed out in previous parts,
of this report, not only occupied, but entirely annexed by the Ger-
man Reich. Especially the Decree of 16.3.1939 (RGBl.I,p.485)
(Annex 1) only insufficiently veils the fact that it orders the
annexation of those parts of the Republic which remained unoccupied
after the dictate of Munich.
The resistance of the Czechoslovak people against this annexation
was fought by various means. The People's Court was one of the
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