| Abstrakt: |
Abstract: The study deals with the Aryanization of Jewish property in the area of Vsetín within the broader context of events taking place in Central Europe. Aryanization started in Germany in the years 1933-1938. After the Munich Agreement, the process continued in the former Czechoslovak regions with German population known as Sudetenland that had been attached to Germany. With the establishment of the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia the Aryanization concept was officially introduced in the Bohemian Lands, although some claims concerning the Jewish property had already been raised during the Second Republic (1938-1939). After a general outline of previous research into this topic the main legislative and institutional aspects of the process from 1933 to 1942 are described. The core of the study consists in an analysis of particular cases of Aryanization in the region under consideration between 1939 and 1945. Special attention is paid in the paper to the expropriation of Jewish trades, businesses, and real property. Inseparable parts of the process are also some accompanying measures, such as exclusion of the Jewish community from the participation in local self-government and from local economic corporations. |
