Willy Menzel, Trutnov

The records in the fonds are mainly of use as sources for the company's history. There is a large set of property-related records from the period of Nazi occupation, dealing with the Gestapo's confiscation of the company's property, Aryanization and the sale of the company to Willy Menzel. In addition, there are interesting post-1945 records on the efforts made by the former owner of the company, R. Pfefferkorn, to get his property back. The events of the autumn of 1938 are reflected in other records, including a request for the return of goods taken away from Trutnov shortly before the Nazi seizure of the Czechoslovak borderlands, the pursuit of this claim against the Czechoslovak Republic, and the recovery of paid-for goods that had been supplied to the Ministry of National Defence. SMUTNÝ B., Willy Menzel, Trutnov 1888-1948. Inventář, 1985, 22 s., ev. č. 534.