 The family also bought property in Austria and Czechoslovakia which had been taken from Jews by the Nazis.At the end of the war, Liechtenstein gave asylum to about 500 soldiers of the First Russian National Army, which had been recruited by the German Wehrmacht from Soviet POWs.After the German invasion, Lithuanians soon realized that the Nazis had no plans for an independent or even autonomous Lithuania and, in fact, they viewed the natives as second-class citizens.