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Sulage 468 1 The Oberlandrat Prague, 17 April 1942. Determining Authority No.II/472/261 ST Note: The applicant has filed an application dated 9.8. l94o on the basis of the Ordinance of 2o.6.194o RGBl.I p.889, which, according to his information, was the result of an involuntary auction of the establishment of his place of residence and dental practice in Prague II, Volksstraße 32, which was unlawfully carried out during his absence from Prague by the tax office in Prague I, for political reasons. he has also declared damage to the loss of his dental practice caused by his forced departure from Prague and the compulsory auction mentioned above. In accordance with Section 2 (1) of the Ordinance of June 2, 1994, the applicant has registered his property damage in good time.He is a German national.The damage occurred in the territory of the present Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia within the period specified in Section 2(1) of that Ordinary (September 1, 1938/15 April 1939).The general conditions for granting compensation On the basis of the Regulation of 2 June 1994 the applicant requested, at his last call to the local office, first to grant him an advance for the damage directly caused by the auction in l938,with the provisional elimination of the following damage posts: loss of dental Practice,loss of the debtor card,lossof a patent specification as well as damage,resulted from the assertion of the property rights of the brothers Knapp in Prague.on the items withdrawn from the auction. The applicant has justified his request by the fact that, as a result of the loss, he urgently needed the advance requested to pay for a new housing facility, which had to be purchased after the almost total facility in Prague had been sold.This request can now be met after the procedure for proof has been carried out.The extremely difficult finding of the damage items not taken into account in the previous procedure,which in particular will require the use of other experts, will take place after the payment of the requested advance to the applicant. In determining the applicant's claims for compensation previously processed, it was first necessary to examine whether the damage alleged by the applicant was inflicted on him because of his German ethnicity and thus the condition of § 2 (1) of the Ordinance of 2 June 1994 was met.After the finding procedure carried out, this Prage can be answered in the affirmative.In particular, the statement of the witness Prof. Dr. Franz POHL (Blatt 76 ) and the statement by the head of the Gauamt at the Gauleitung Sudetenland,Ing. Stafen (Batt 73) shows that the applicant has always been familiar with the German language and has been active in German and from the Czech side because of its German nationality.