The heirs complained against a ministerial clerk who did not recognise count Salm's Czechoslovak citizenship retroactively. The property of Hugo Salm (1893-1946) was confiscated after World War Two on the basis of the Benes decrees which provided for the confiscation of the property of collaborators, traitors, ethnic Germans and Hungarians, except for those who suffered under the Nazis, and they also formed a basis for the transfer of the former groups from Czechoslovakia. Some experts agree with the confiscation of Salm's property.
They say the count cooperated with the Nazi regime and had German citizenship. In 2002, the Interior Ministry rejected Salm's application Czechs, Slovaks and Poles among “The Few” ...
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Projects ... for citizenship, which stirred up further legal disputes in this case. In 2005, the Constitutional Court annulled the previous verdict that deprived Salm of Czechoslovak citizenship. The court pointed out that the lower-level courts had ignored many pieces of evidence and thereby violated the right to a just trial. The court also recalled that Hugo Salm had helped his fellow citizens during WW2. The Salm family originally owned extensive property in south Moravia, comprising 7,000 hectares of land and a chateau in Rajec.
(Ceske Noviny)
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