A lower-level court refused to return the castle to the German Order two years ago saying it is not a legal successor to the Order of the Teutonic Knights. The order then turned to the Regional Court in Ostrava, North Moravia, demanding that it deliver a decision of the former Kozeny says he will submit his innocence evidence to Prague court ...
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Czechs lay foundation to monument of victim of communism ... Czechoslovak administrative court made in 1948. According to it the knights were to get back fields and properties confiscated by the Nazis, but the decision was never carried out when the communists seized power in then Czechoslovakia in the same year. The Order of Teutonic Knights did not lose properties on the basis of Benes decrees after World War Two but the properties were confiscated by the Nazis. The decrees issued by then Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes after the war provided for the confiscation of the property of collaborators, traitors, ethnic Germans and Hungarians, except for those who themselves suffered under the Nazis.
They also formed a basis for the transfer of the former groups from Czechoslovakia. The Regional Court turned down the order's demand, so the order lodged a cassation complaint with the Supreme Administrative Court. However, the Supreme Administrative Office upheld the verdict last year, and the Constitutional Court did so today.
(Ceske Noviny)
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