Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:50:17 +0200Kinsky: post-war confiscation of property was illegal and illogicalhttps://english.radio.cz/kinsky-post-war-confiscation-property-was-illegal-and-illogical-8076649© 2026 Radio Prague International Franz Ulrich Kinsky - a member of an aristocratic family with long roots in Bohemia - has filed a total of 150 lawsuits asking the Czech courts to confirm that he is the rightful owner of large amounts of property which were confiscated from him as a child after the war. So far he's won five of the suits and lost four. The Czech authorities argue his father had been a Nazi sympathiser before the war, and so under the post-war Benes decrees, it was right to confiscate the property. But speaking by telephone from his home in Argentina, Franz Kinsky told Radio Prague that as far as he knew, claims that his father was a Nazi were unfounded. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 Kinsky: post-war confiscation of property was illegal and illogical https://english.radio.cz/kinsky-post-war-confiscation-property-was-illegal-and-illogical-8076649 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9