English Translation

-2- Land-ownership I also commissioned the Land Office in Prague. The entire property in the Protectorate was handed over to the Vermögensamt at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia for administration by letter of 22 January 1942. By letter of ll.12.194l, the state police station in Linz asked the whole of the protectorate of the Reichsgaues Oberdonau to move in after the Reich Minister of the Interior had requested by decree of 26.ll.1941 Pol - S IV B 1 - l057/4l that the assets of the Cistercian monastery Hohenfurth should be confiscated not in favour of the German Reich, but in favor of the imperial gaues Upperdonau. The order for the confiscation of the property in favour of the Reichsgaues Oberdonau followed after notification of the state police station Linz on the basis of a personal decision of the leader. Since the above-mentioned decree of the Minister of the Interior dated 26 January 1994l cannot easily be applied to the assets in the Protectorate, I replied to the State Police Office Linz by letter of 22 January 19942: "On the basis of the decree of Reich - protector in Bohemia and Moravia of 4 October 1939 (RGBl. I.S. 1998) - VBlr-prot.S 13l) I am held that the