English Translation

10 5. State Law of the Statute of the Protectorate - The Führer's Decree The above statements show that the German-Czech Agreement of 15 March 1939 is by no means legally to be regarded as the contractual foundation of a protectorate relationship. Such a view is perhaps suggested by the turn that the leader wants to take the Czech people under the protection of the German Reich. However, one has to distinguish here sharply whether one wants to remain on international or political ground. Through the inclusion of the Czech territory in the Geutsche Reichsgebiet and its military occupation by German troops, xwit politically the Czech people has been unquestionably taken into the protection of the Reich, we will have to come back to it later on. However, this does not mean that the Czech People are in any way in a legal relationship with the Reich with regard to international law. For it lacks the state organization and independence, which are the legal prerequisites of such a relationship. In the agreement, therefore, the Czech state does not consistently speak of the Czech people and their country. That too is a support for our view. It is also clear that at the moment when the end of a person of international law is established, there is no longer any possibility of a contractual relationship. by a treaty t d d Of course, the agreement also has a central role to play in the present Statute of the Protectorate, when the political authority over the Czech people has legally passed into the hands of the Empire through this agreement. Only the present Reichsprotektorat did not originate from the legal form of the Czechs' autonomous national life, which follows from the agreement with twin necessity, but from the political discretion and sense of responsibility of the leader.The important consequence of this fact is that a possible amendment to the protection of