The association wants Slovak victims of the Nazis, who created a puppet government in Slovakia during the war, to be compensated by the bank.

Bank spokesman Pavel Palivec said all its assets, gold included, were divided between the Czech Republic and Slovakia when Czechoslovakia split into the two countries in 1993.

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