English Translation

The Czechoslovak state did not oppose these attempts by serious inconsistencies. The Prague National Bank agreed to the transfer of Jewish assets abroad to the greatest extent. As far as this did not happen, Jewish industrialists and workers sold their goods to the outside world, far in the year 1939, under the pretext of foreign exchange procurement, and collected the goods according to their executed plot. Such provisions on foreign balances and receivables could be prevented only to a limited extent later, in the neutral countries and in the countries occupied by us. d Jews, who feared the access of the German authorities and wanted to leave the country, to sell their assets, in front of all foundations and farms, as far as possible against cash payment and to emigrate with the cash, whereby the transfer of the Grens was often illegal. Although the Chief of the Civil Administration of Army Group III has ordered by decree of 29.3.1939, 80575 that the acquisition, as well as any power over economic undertakings, investments and assets of any kind, which are wholly or partly owned by Jews, require retroactively on the 15.3.19 39 of its express and only in exceptional cases. Nevertheless, transactions abroad were possible, since the permits were granted after only above-the-ground tests. This pellet of tasks was somewhat helpless to the state police in the first time, unswervingly when they were in the protectorate for the firsttime a closed hostile frend- volke.