English Translation

6 - 5 - because it was necessary to obtain buildings and equipment for the accommodation of the various services immediately, and to satisfy the most urgent housing needs of the incoming officials. It was not until 24.5.1939 that the banks were asked to disclose all the assets of emigrated Jews and to provide the accounts with a note of confiscation in favour of the secret state police. With regard to the pellet of the resulting work and the few material agents available, only those fulle were processed at first, in which the assets amounted to over loo.ooo.- crowns. It was not until December 1 939 that all the major and middle banks were informed that the assets of solitary Jews who had emigrated in the period from l.l.l939 to lo.7.1939 were seized by the state police with effect from 16.3.1939. However, this general claim was made only to the extent that the total value of the secured property exceeded loo.oo.-Kronen. This led to the acquisition of the majority of Jewish assets which could be confiscated and confiscated. A substantial clarification in the field of the compilation of Jewish property was provided by the decree of the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Mühren dated 2l6.1939 on the obligation to report Jewish assets. that Jews, Jewish enterprises and Jewish associations of persons make disposals of land, rights to land, economic enterprises and participations in such, on securities of all kinds, on the lease of land and economic enterprises, and on the transfer of leases of all types, only with the written approval of the Reichsprotektor. the one whom he has appointed;