This presentation refers about progress in the historical research in the project "Books Discovered Once Again".

1. HISTORICAL RESEACH

2. The Munich Agreement
•30th Semptember 1938
•Germany + Italy+ France + United Kingdom
•Hitler + Mussolini + Daladier + Chamberlain

3. The map after M. A.

4. Protectorate of the Reich

5. After WWII
•which political system
•what to do with Germany, Hungarian and
collaborates
•5th April 1945 in Košice (Slovakia) Government
Program
•citizenship, punishment criminals from time of
oppression, property of traitors and confiscation of
property, land reform, …
•Presidential Decrees
•Národní shromáždění (Parliament) – 28th October
1945

6. What to do with Germans after war?
•expulsions
•property confiscation
•punishment
•presidential decrees

7. Presidential Decrees
•no. 12/1945 coll. - allocation of agricultural
property
•no. 108/1945 coll. - confiscation property of
enemies
•Act no. 137/1946 coll. – National Cultural
Comittee

8. Archival Research
•National Archives of Czech republic
•Archive of National Library
•Archive in Česká Lípa
•Archive of Security Forces
•Archive of Foreign Office

9. •National People´s Committee in Prague »
commission to National Library to confiscation
book in Bohemia
•after 108/1945 coll. - National Renewal Fund –
great problem – sales abroad
•after 137/1946 coll. – National Cultural
Committee

10. Confiscated Books
•imported from Germany (looted in whole Europe) –
castles Nový Bernštejn, Houska, Mimoň, Nový
Falkenburk
•confiscated from Germans, Hungarians and
collaborators
•? gifts
•? personal libraries after 1948
•? monastic libraries after 1950

11. Main problem
•no lists describing confiscated books

12. Thank you for your attention!