English Translation

I have decided to have German troops marched into Bohemia and Moravia with the present day. — They will disarm the terrorist gangs and the Czech armed forces covering them, protect the lives of all those at risk and thus secure the basis for the introduction of a fundamental resolution. that meets the sense of a century-old history and the prsctic needs of the German and Czech people 10. Marz: justice." — The German army sets up the rest of the Chechei, Lin-marsch first at Moravian-Ostrava. THE PROTEKTORÁT BÖHMEN AND MÄHREN The leader arrives in Prague on the evening of the 15th. Tosender Jubel glides his journey through the Sudetenland and the Grensgeheete. At the Prague Castle, the leader signs the decree on the declaration of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Provisions on the state. Judicial position of the Bohemian and Moravian states. Establishment of an empire. protector. The leader receives the president Dr. Hacha and the Czech government. Enthused thanks to the Prague Germans cheers the leader in front of the castle courtyard. March of the German students to the Burghof, where the Führer, by stepping down their group, expresses to them the beautiful thanks for the shown effort. On the same day the Flüger leaves the city. — The enforcement power for Bohemia is transferred to General Blaskowitz, for Moravia to General List. They are assisted by Gauleiter Konrad Healein for Bohemia and Gauleiter Josef Bürckel for Moravia as heads of the civil administration. The Reichsmark becomes a means of payment in Bohemia and Moravia (next to the crown). An RM = 10 K. — The Carpathian Ukraine is completely occupied by Hungary Slovakia stands under the protection of the empire. 17. Mare: The Führer will nominate in Olmütz and Brno the thanks of the German population. — First troop parade of German motorized departments on the Prague Wenceslas Square. Bavarian aid train" comes to Prague. the NSV immediately takes up its aid activities. Reichsminister Konstantin Freiherr v. Neurath is appointed by the Führers as Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia. The deputy Gauleiter of the Gaues Sudetenland, Karl Hermann Frank, becomes State Secretary; President of the Government of Burgsdorff Ministerial Director (later Under-State Secretary). 19 March: The Day of the Wehrmacht is celebrated for the first time in Prague. Large troop parade «imtlich associations of the site Prague. the Luftwaffe, in front of the commander-in-chief General Blaskowitz in the presence of the newly-appointed state secretary at the Reichsprotektor, March 20: K. H. Frank. The German language in the public offices of Bohemia and Moravia, March 21: is introduced as an equal official language. Mars: The Reich Protector is directly subordinated to the Fuhrer by a decree to decree the Fuehrer on the establishment of the Protectorate. — The validity of German criminal law in the Protectorates is ordered on 23 March: by the Commander-in-Chief of the Army. The German Reich takes over the protection of the dlovak state. — The Committee of the Czech 'National Community' joins together. Its tasks are delimited by President Hácha, who is to form and represent the Czech people and to re-establish the 30th Mar: Political orientation of the people of the country. 1 April: Larger groups of Czech workers take up work in the Reich. In Wilhelmshaven, in his speech on the launch of the battleship "Tirpitz", the Führer marks the inconceivable ignorance in England and France about the Bohemian Moravian region as a thousand-year-old German culture. and area of life: "We really have 7 no hatred against the Czech people. We have lived together for centuries. The English statesmen do not know this. they have no idea that the Hradshin was not built by a narrow country, but by the German, and that the St. Veitsdom was also built by the English but by German hands. They do not realize that in a time when England was still very small. to a German emperor at this mountain, that already a thousand years before me there stood the first German king and accepted the homages of this people cat. The English do not know that, neither can they nor do they need to know it. It is enough that we know it and that it is so. daf has been in the habitat of the German Voikes for a millennium. However, we would still have nothing against an independent Czech state if, firstly, he did not suppress Germans: and if he had been far-reaching the instrument of an upcoming attack against German land would have been collen. But if cin French former aviation minister writes in a newspaper. that it is the task of this Czech Republic, because of its excellent position, to hit the heart in the war of Germany by air attacks, then it is forgotten that this is not without interest for us and that we then draw certain consequences from it. It would have been for England and France to defend this air hate. In any case, it was up to us to prevent such an attack from taking place. I believed that I could do so in a natural and simple way. Only when I saw that every such attempt was destined for failure and that the anti-German elements would win the Ühechand again, and when I further saw that this state had long lost its inner viability, yes, that it had already been broken. I re-established the old dench law and re-united what had to be united by history and geography and by all the rules of reason. Not to suppress the Czech people! There will be more freedom than the oppressed fathers of the virtuous nations. I have done a great service to peace, I say, because I have made a tool that was destined to be effective in the war worthless at times... We have given Central Europe a great one. Happiness, namely peace, peace, which is protected by German power." 6 April: Ceremonial arrival of the Imperial Protector Baron von Neurath in Prague. "It will be my task to lead the countries of Bähmen and Moravia to happiness and prosperity in the habitat of the German people." pady H Handing over the full force from the Wehrmacht to the organs of the Reich Protector. 17. Aprit: Regulation of the jurisdiction for People's Germans by three decrees of the Minister of Justice of the Empire. German Higher Regional Court of Prague. German Regional Courts in Prague and Brno and German Local Courts. Introduction of German criminal law for Germans. — Order of the Chief Commander of the Hecre on German garrisons in Protectorate.