It turns out that Jan Bata was enemy No. 1 of the German National Socialists. It is also clear that the German regime wanted to stop Bata. But even the Germans couldn't stop Bata.
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I recommend a study: Bata Foreign Office January 2011 + Foreign Office 21.10.1931 + German Intelligence Office DNB 19.7.1938 + Letter from Gerhard Keiper to John Nash 23.3.2011
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German Foreign Office memorandum of November 8, 1938 with attached memo explaining the reasons why the Nazi regime ordered the closing of all Bata's approximately 500 stores in the Sudetenland: "The reason for this order is the political stance taken by the Bata managing directorate during the political events leading to the handing over of the Sudetenland, and the conviction that the preservation of the extraordinarily networked system of Bata affiliates in the Sudeten-German region is not consistent from an economic-political standpoint with the principles of National Socialist governance of the economy. The efforts of the Reich Commissar are directed to having Bata completely liquidate his affiliates and transfer them into other hands."
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