31,93 linear meters
Knesl E.-Ševčík A.: Celní pátrací služebna, pobočka Brno (1924) 1939-1945. Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1959, s. 0, ev.č. 384.
Files were first sorted by seats of offices and their branches. Administrative files were structured according to the registry key of the Reich financial service from 1939 into groups: O – organisation and administration; P – personnel and wage matters; H – budget, treasury, accounting; St – training; S – Reich tax; Z – customs duty; V – excise duty. The actual investigation and criminal files are stored under the original call numbers E in the case of Olomouc and F for Ostrava.
Among other things, the fonds provides details about confiscated Jewish property, securities, jewellery and precious metals, securing of Jewish deposits and bank accounts and permission of maintenance amounts from rare Jewish accounts. In some files, record is also contained of balances of Jewish businesses from the end of the 1st Republic. It is possible to see in the material the first wave of pogroms against the Jews, restriction of their economic influence, stripping of their social standing, property, options for emigration etc. The following types of items are then specifically specified: Circulars of the Protectorate Ministry of Finance on foreign exchange matters, on Jewish property, reports by the Devisenschutzkommando (Foreign Exchange Protection Task Force) for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia of the Protectorate Ministry of Finance, list of appraisers of Jewish property for 1939, 1940; Foreign exchange investigation about Jews 1940–1943; Correspondence with Zollfahndunsstelle Praha (Customs Investigation Office Prague), instructions for reports on activity, on the cultural and artistic activity of Jews, employee flats 1939–1944; Exchanges of the Oberlandrat (Head of the Supreme District Authority) in Brno on confiscation of Jewish property, establishment and cancellation of forced administration 1939–1942; Confirmation by the District Directorate of Finance in Brno to Jews on the tax compliance as a document to go with their request for emigration 1939; Banks: reports on Jewish safe deposit boxes, deposits, securities, status of foreign currencies, in banks in Brno and Vyškov 1939; Statements from Czechoslovak and Reich acts and directives on foreign currency and customs matters, about Jewish emigration and excise duty 1933–1945; Various normative edicts on measures in foreign exchange management, securities trading and on Jewish property 1924–1942 – working dossier Raetz and Beinemann; Jihlava site: Records and protocols concerning Jewish property, notification of Jewish safe deposit boxes, accounts and deposits with banks, savings societies and loan societies 1939; Uherské Hradiště site: Confiscation of Jewish property, illegal border crossings 1939; Moravská Ostrava branch: Confiscated passenger cars from Jewish property for the branch in Ostrava as company cars 1939–1940; Foreign exchange matters and checks on Jewish foreign currencies, deposits and safe deposit boxes, organisational instructions, circulars, investigation of individual cases 1939–1940; Lists of Jewish and foreign non-Protectorate property with financial institutions confiscated by the official Traub (date not specified); Release of Jewish deposits (date not specified); Lists of Jewish and foreign non-Protectorate property with financial institutions (date not specified); Files and lists of Jews arrested in Olomouc in March 1939; Correspondence relating to passports of Jews, ascertaining residence address, duplicate accounts, faults at the border etc. 1939; List of bank safe deposit boxes, items in safekeeping deposited by third parties, Jewish accounts and deposits, property of people living within the territory of the Reich and banks in the area around the Olomouc site (date not specified).
Customs Investigation Office, Brno Branch