Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:43:59 +0200https://english.radio.cz/czech-court-decide-property-confiscated-end-ww2-8076679© 2026 Radio Prague International Whilst Poland and its neighbours deal with the question of war criminals, the Czech Republic is intrigued by a court case which poses other questions about it's past. 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 after the war. He was a child at the time. The Czech authorities argue his father was a Nazi sympathiser and the confiscation was legal under the Benes decrees. Some 2.5 million people were expelled under the Benes decrees and many had property confiscated. Franz Kinsky says that as far as he knew, his father was no Nazi. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/czech-court-decide-property-confiscated-end-ww2-8076679 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9