Complex sentence: Moreover, there was severe housing shortage in Brno as the consequence of the fights and previous bombing and especially the factory workers demanded to confiscate the apartments of the Germans, as the Germans have done before with the apartments of the Jews.
Split into simpler sentences: Moreover, there was severe housing shortage in Brno as a consequence of the war fights and previous bombings. Especially factory workers demanded to confiscate the apartments of the Germans, so as the Germans did before with the apartments of the Jews.