The last of the Jewish-owned villas and sanatoria in Franzensbad, world famous health resort in the Sudetenland, have passed into “Aryant hands, it was learned today from the Prague Nazi organ Neue Zeit. The properties include the Trautheim, Platzer and Regina villas which had been owned by such prominent physicians as Wasserman, Linder and Kiesler.
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