Subject: Re: - Liechtenstein, Czech Rebublik
Date: Feb 07, 2002 @ 14:17
Author: endesch ("endesch" <endesch@...>)
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Most of the land confiscated from the House of Liechtenstein is in
the Czech Republik - there are 1,600 square kilometers of it.

To my understanding, the territories were not sovereign even in the
17th century - they were Liechtenstein family held Feudal and Non-
immediate territories within the Empire.- the non immediacy being the
reason the Liechtensteins needed to gain possession of the current
territory of Liechtenstein - i.e., this new territory was immediate
and could be used for upping the Family's status, giving them a seat
in Imperial councils.

Austria lost sovereignty over the Bohemia-Silesia liechtenstein
territories after World War I as they were given to Czechoslovakia.
The Czechs in turn, lost the territories to Germany when the
sudetenland was annexed, and then Germany was forced to give them
back to the Czechs after the end of World War II. The Czechs then
secured legal permissions to seize all private territory belonging to
Germans in the land they got back.

But, included in the mass seizures was land belonging to the
Liechtensteins, who are Liechtensteinish, not German. (well this is
somewhat of a stretch I guess). Therefore, and though this is not
the pending legal action, the Czechs have a reasonable legal
responsibility to restore all the disputed property to
Liechtenstein. One could imagine that reasonable damages would be
granting of actual Liechtenstein sovereignty over the lands in
question - well this will never happen either, but it would be the
fair thing.

So my question, is there a map?