English Translation

96 Der Neue Tag No 47 of 2 November 1941, without exception, prohibited Jews from giving up any property values as objects of housing or household, rights and claims, etc., unless official consent was given. In the event of the transfer of this prohibition, both the culprit and the keepers of those values were threatened by the sharpest state police measures. (254) The Jews were in particular prohibited from selling, donating and stopping housing or household items, placing them in custody or having them similar to others. The Jewish religious community in Prague was ordered in October 1941 to establish a special department "Treuhandstelle" whose task was to capture and clean abandoned Jewish apartments in Prague and its surroundings. (255) Humiliated and in death With terrible consistency, the Nazis applied their monstrous racial theories even in executions. During the first martial law, the SS practice was introduced, when Jewish citizens and perpetrators were hanged in the Ruzyně barracks in Prague and Kounicova dormitories in Brno in autumn 1941 while other "devils" were shot in front of the firing squad. During the second martial law declared after the assassination of Heydrich, when due to the massacre of repression established provisional execution sites of the protective police on the shooting galleries, where it was not possible to execute hangings, the Jewish victims were shot by a platoon or individuals with a blow to the back, but separately from others. A member of the Security Police (Schupo) E.Franzel (256) said in the postwar interrogations: "It is quite specific that the order contained a passage in which the Jews were ordered to be separated and executed at a speed. I learned from the participants in the executions of our hundredth that in individual cases the Jews in the shooting range were separated from the others and shot with a blow to the back of the head. In one of these cases our 'spís' Mahling joked to tell me that in my name the unknown 'spíss' of Viennese companie was shaking in the head (257)