English Translation

To the 8V ethnic group leader Ing.Franz Karmasin, PressbuI_g German Party Smolenice, on July 25, 1940. Smolenice Subject:Josef Graf Pálffy, Jhr Zeihen: ./. Unfer Beidenz/0. Smolenice. In the answer state Dear comrade ethnic group leaders. As is well known, the former Czechoslovak government did not only denationalise all Germans to the greatest extent, but also set it up as the task of redeploying the assets in the way that German people were confiscated, which then transferred to so-called reliable Czechs vurde. The former Czech soil office in Prague, for example, has disowned Mr. Josef Graf Pálffy, Smolenice, soil in large quantities, by which measures of the former were seriously damaged.For example, from its Moravian possessions Austerlitz and Üngrisch-Brod, which are located in the current protectorate Moravia, approximately 4.oðo ha land-economic area and about 3.ooo ha forest were expropriated. The agricultural area of the reign of Austerlitz melted thereby from ründ 4.l00 ha to l66 ha, i.e. to about 4% of the former property, to ammen. Through these expropriations Mr. Josef Count Pálffy suffered the following damage: 4.000 ha agricultural area á 20,000.- K price difference d.s....... K 80,000.000.-- 10,000.000... K 90,000.000.-- If we take into account the further expropriations in Slovakia, which amount to 4.ooo Kat.Joch Fläche á lo.500.- - K price difference, i.e....... K 42,000.000. --, then the total damage of the Lord Josef Count Pálffy by expropriation is estimated at approximately ............. K 132,000.000 .--. Thus, not enough, the above-mentioned still requires a capital charge into the many millions. These measures have led to a significant economic downturn and ultimately to dependence on the Czech banks, because at the time of the emergence of the former techechoslovak Republic, only Czech banks have the necessary liquid funds at their disposal. Since these had to be used, it has laid the root of the financial distress, which is now beginning to arise, because the Czech banks supported the government's efforts in the fight against all Germans and, even in the present case, took the first chance to exercise Czech terror in the possessions of Count Pálffy. czech compulsory administration introduced,cooky prose lake fed, Chechnya trustees put in place German officials who until then German business and accounting by Czech