By decree "12/1945 Sb.", farm property of German and Hungarian nationals or citizens was confiscated, unless they could prove active resistance against Nazism. Property of "traitors, and enemies of the republic" was confiscated, regardless of nationality or citizenship. By decree "16/1945 Sb.", special tribunals were started. These people's courts had right to sentence to long term imprisonment, life sentence or death. Prosecutions varied from verbal support to those who had committed crimes against humanity, no prosecution was based on ethnicity. By "33/1945 Sb." people of German and Hungarian nationality or ethnicity lost their Czechoslovakian citizenship. However, they had right to apply for renewal.