Konfiskace majetku českých Židů v poválečném Československu na příkladu zámku a velkostatku Puklice

Abstract

This study deals with the post-war confiscation of the possession of a Czech Jew Richard Fischmann, the last owner of the castle and manor farm estate Puklice in Czechoslovakia. Using the direct method of the archive document research, it tries to find the reasons why Fischmann was designated as a German despite the Nazi persecution of his whole family and his death in Auschwitz. The particular aim of this study is to set the whole event into the context of the relations between the last owner and Puklice village prior 1939, furthermore to try to find the causes leading to the subsequent post-war enmity and finally to extend the existing description of the whole confiscation process based on the Decree No. 12/1945 and its substantiation.

Keywords

• Puklice
• Jewish possession confiscation
• post-war Czechoslovakia
• Beneš Decrees
• Czech Jews
• accusation of germanisation
• restitution disputes