The Czech Supreme Court (NS) on Monday ruled that the authorities of the village of Zdarek, north Bohemia, must return a forest measuring 0.25 hectares to Kammerlander.This verdict will also have an impact on the ruling in the case of the Hruby Rohozec chateau, north Bohemia, the return of which Kammerlander claimed at district court in Semily in February, but failed.Zavesky, judge of the Semily court, said Kammerlander did not prove that count Karl des Fours Walderode did not act against Czechoslovak interests during WWII.However, the Supreme Court issued an opposite ruling.Zavesky Czech troops change in Afghanistan ...
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Czech minister wants supreme state attorney's higher independence ... told CTK he would take the Supreme Court's legal opinion into consideration in his future proceedings about the return of Hruby Rohozec.Kammerland claims the family property, including the chateau Hruby Rohozec, worth a total 120 million crowns.
She has not succeeded with any of her claims so far.Her lawyer Roman Heyduk will appeal the February verdict in the case of Hruby Rohozec, he said.He added he expected the apealls court to follow the Supreme Court's decision and return the chateau to Kammerlander.Karl des Fours Walderode, an ethnic German, was stripped of his family property under the post-war Benes decrees in 1946.Czechoslovak authorities returned Czechoslovak citizenship to Walderode in 1947. However, he did not manage to gain his confiscated property back since after the February 1948 communist coup he emigrated and was stripped of Czechoslovak citizenship again.The Interior Ministry returned the citizenship to Walderode in 1992 and he applied for the return of his family property. However, witnesses appeared saying that he had collaborated with the Nazis during the war.Walderode raised the claim to the family property in 1992. Ten years later, he died.The Supreme Court ruled most lately that during World War Two Walderode did not act against Czechoslovakia's interests and was very loyal to the Czechoslovak Republic.(USD1=16.960 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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