Most of them have been sent to forced labor camps without any previous investigation. mostly to camps located in the marshy regions of the lower part of the Danube. others have been sentenced by the peoples courts to 5 to 20 years of imprisonment and some of the victims have been mercilessly executed. The land reform. which has been carried out after the First World War In the early twenties has been reassumed. the greater part of the remaining Hungarian properties have been completely confiscated. and some of the properties have been reduced to a maximum 100 acres. During the spring of 1949. on a certain day. all the landowners have been detained and deported with all their family members to designated cities. This regulation involved all landowners. without any difference if they still owned some land or not. and included the Rumanian landowners as well. Thus. this entire class lost all its property. forced to leave behind all their belongings and allowed to take along only the amount of 10 to 20 kilograms of their personal belongings.
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