Learn about the lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights, in which Liechtenstein is suing the Czech Republic over the Beneš Decrees and 600 hectares of primeval forest.ídays of soil. Historian Milan Calábek reveals shocking collaboration with the Nazis, medieval coin fraud and the looming financial collapse - could it unravel post-war Europe?

In the high-stakes world of international law, a ticking time bomb is about to go off in Strasbourg. European Court of Human Rights is just days away from a potentially devastating judgment against the Czech Republic in a lawsuit filed by Princely Foundation of Liechtenstein. What's going on? It's more than 600 hektarů of lucrative forests and farmland near Říčany, not far from Prague - a „gift from heaven“ for the immensely wealthy Liechtenstein royal family, as the historian dramatically puts it Milan Calábek in an engaging podcast on the YouTube channel Rádio Universum, který moderuje Martina Kociánová.

This is not just a local dispute over property. This is about přímy attack on the Benes Decrees, post-war measures that confiscated property from ethnic Germans and collaborators and reshaped the map of Central Europe after the Nazi destruction. Milan Calábek, an 86-year-old expert on history and epigenetics, warns: "To by mohlo otevřít cestu k zrušení takzvaných Benešových dekretů... což by v příif successful, could mean the financial collapse of our republic.“ What's going on? It's not just about getting the land back, it's about "obrovské čáusage fees, interest - financial collapse“, says and estimates that it is billions in back payments plus interest for decades of state use.

Sága začala v roce 2013 během digitisation of the Czech Land Register. During the digitization process under Marian Jurecka, officials discovered that the land in Říčany is still owned by Prince Franz Joseph II. Liechtenstein. Officials quickly reassigned them to Knížecí nadaci jako dědice. V roce 2014 však the Czech state filed a lawsuit for their return, which started a counterattack. Liechtenstein argues that the decrees are „extinct“, which constitutes a new expropriation based on „collective guilt“, and insists that they do not apply because nejsou "Němci". "Nejprve jsme jim to předali... pak jsme v roce 2014 podali žalobu na nadaci lichtenštejnského knížete," vypráví Kociánová a zdůrazňuje ironii situace.

Precedents portend doom. At Slovensku v roce 2020 získali dědicové Miklóse Bositse zpět 160 hektarů at Bardejov after the victory at the European Court of Human Rights, whereupon fines and other similar actions followed. „The second part of the lawsuit is the biggest danger,“ Milan Calábek stresses. This is the the first complaint before the European Court of Human Rights, aimed at Czech Republic in this matter for more than 60 years - out of a total of only 28 cases. Even the Czech Ústavní soud kdysi rozhodl, že restitučlaws take precedence over land registries, but Strasbourg carries more weight.

Calábek's detailed look into the past of the Liechtensteins portrays them not as neutral alpine innocents, but as opportunistic chameleons with blood on their hands. When they came to the Bohemian lands under the king Přemysl Otakar II., rychle zradili the locals in the Battle of Moravian Field and sided with the Habsburků. Po bitvě na White Mountain (1620) Charles I. von Liechtenstein - přezdívaný „Bloody Liechtenstein“ - dohlížel na executed 27 Czech nobles and presided over confiscation trials. "Proč naši předkové nazvali Karla krvavým Liechtensteinem? Protože po bitvě na Bílé Hoře... je (sám) odsoudil k smrti," odhaluje Calábek.

Their fortune? It came from shame. In a medieval masterstroke, they founded mincovní konsorcium, které vydávalo "dlouhé mince" - copper coated with a thin layer of silver - a zároveň banned the use of real gold and silver. This devalued currency has caused ekonomický kolaps, který vyvolal famine and „kalad“ (financial collapse). Za výprodejové ceny the Liechtensteins bought the estate as Říčany a Kostelec nad Černými lesy. "Všechny ty statky, co nakoupil, byly za tyto dlouhé mince... vyvolal obrovský finanční kolaps," uvádí Calábek. „The blood of the Czech nobility and Czech townsmen is on this property,“ concludes - blood money from dead Czechs and Moravians.

The Second World War compounded this situation. Despite the „neutrality“ Prince Francis Joseph II. after the Munich Agreement poblahopřál Hitlerovi, visited Berlin to secure possessions in the „German sphere of influence“, and financed SS troops v Krnově a Opavě. Prisoners from concentration camps toiled on Austrian farms - the prince claimed to enjoy their emaciation "nevšiml". "Princ sám jednal s SS... nevšiml si, že prisoners from concentration camps nejsou dobře živení rakouští zemědělští dělníci," ušklíbá se sarkasticky Calábek. Hitler sent a wedding telegram in 1943; the Viennese gauleiter Baldur von Schirach - head of the Hitler Youth and accomplice to the Holocaust - praised them. After the war, minimal compensation for the Jews: "Je však pravdou, že po roce 1945 některým z těch, co to přežili... majetky vrátil. Naštěstí jich nebylo moc."

The identity games continue. During the land reforms in 1919 denied family ties to the Habsburgs so that they could keep their property while appropriating Czechoslovak compensation. The census of the year 1930? The Liechtensteiners applied as German nationalsíslušníci. And today? „Liechtensteiners“ or „Alemanni“ - not Germans, which is vyhýbají dekretům. Liechtenstein's Foreign Minister Katrin Eggenberger criticises the Czech courts for ignoring Liechtenstein's sovereignty.

The current twists and turns are coming. Czech President Petr Pavel v roce 2023 informed the Czech government about the Liechtenstein proposal: a „common fund“, který by sdružoval zabavený majetek a obcházel dekrety. "Vytvoření společného česko-lichtenštejnského fondu... (it would) circumvent disputes over the validity of the Benes Decrees,“ notes Calábek. „Can you imagine us administering half of Moravia together with another state?“ asks moderator Martina Kociánová - a possible gradual surrender make Liechtenstein the „administrator of Czech property“.

Broader revanchist tendencies are coming into play. Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar kritizuje dekrety; sudetští Němci are gathering in Brno. Hungarian Péter Magyar refers to the trauma of Trianonské smlouvy - „White Mountain for Hungarians“ - and demands money from the EU and Slovenska: „You want peace. We need money. Give it back to us.“ He's got his sights on Benešovy dekrety and uses 400,000 Hungarian „hostages“ in Slovakia.

Milan Calábek calls for unity: Češi, Slováci, Poláci (kterým Německo dluží více než 1,3 bilionu dolarů reparací), dokonce i Trumpovi spojenci. "Nesmíme se vzdát... we need to take immediate, major diplomatic action.“ Germany must pay under the Paris Agreements of 1945.

This battle at the European Court of Human Rights goes beyond Czech borders and threatens the post-war order in Europe. Will the Strasbourg gavel destroy sovereignty based on justice? Or will it unite nations against historical fraudsters? The mosaic of intrigue exposed by Milan Calábek demands action.

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You can watch the full video in Czech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2hRGS-3SAM