Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1136, sig. 110-11/74

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- 6 - 38. Ey then followed a conference with Mr. Staats=sekretär mit Oberlandesgerichtpräsidenten Bürkle Präsi= O dent of the German Higher Regional Court in Prague, and his Vizé= President, Landgeriohtsdirektor Töpert. Dr. An- ders did not attend at first. He was later called upon to open his NOET that, in the opinion of these gentlemen of the 18 years dau= TENCTED, dispute-does not belong before a proper court with the whole court procession until the Reichsgericht, but demands a settlement of arbitration. Dr. Anders should once again make an attempt, by amicable means, to conclude an arbitration agreement with the Czech. Dr. Anders worked out an arbitration contract as soon as possible, the Chesschian protectorate government sent him. This demanded Tscliechian presidency with odd judges= number or with even zalt parity occupation. This manoeuvre meant to treat the claims in their decision exactly as they were treated by the Czechs for many years, at best to abduct them.The arbitration agreement scuppered.The Czechs sat Sereits for more than half a year on the content of the dispute and their evidence, without going beyond a point. Publicly, however, the Czechs expected the war against the Reich. When it broke out, the Reichsprotektor decreed on 11.9.39 the decision of the claims by an official arbitration commission chaired by the President of the Oberlandesgericht Bürkle. The Czechs stood up as judges to the lawyers inister Dr. Koukal and the candidates Dr. wal and Dr. Martin, the German plaintiffs the vice-president of the Öberlandesgericht Prag Landgerichts= Director Töpert and the head of the law firm of the leader "Cnyrin and Dr Wittig': Alie° Richter have been in possession of all the arguments, all the evidence, Czech edo. like Germans. . 11.) In the meantime Dr. In other words, the actual side of the "chadensersatzclaims" presented the whole of the relevant matérial dew Reichsforstmeister and asked for an evaluation report on the same subject, by land 8forestner Dr. Storck, that the building was to be quantified on about 125 ooo ooo ke. wdriov Jeu Aetpyoro gos ve'e SvTr k* (evidence: Eepen 11811