English Translation

12 1.3 and the political organizational power is transferred to the leader of the German people. The leader has also made use of this organizational power in Article 1 of the decree, which states that the parts of the former Czecho-Slovak Republic occupied by the German troops in March l939 now belong to the territory of the Eaxixakmx Great German Empire. If it is a characteristic of the international protectorate that the territory of the protected state remains separate and independent, the opposite is the case here. The territory of Bohemia and Moravia is integrated into the empire, thus is German territory under international law. It has now been incorporated into the German Reich as an autonomous body and continues to occupy a separate position, which is completely separated from the other parts of the Reich, which also manifests itself primarily in the own nationality of the Protectorate of Bohemia-Mähren, which was established in accordance with Article 2, paragraph 2. This special position, however, is also a country-legal speciality and must be compared with the various states that existed within the German Reich until l933, where the German empire, which is also under international law, fell apart in various Prussian, Bavarian and Württemberg states. However, apart from the fundamentally possible cancellation or amendment of the protectorate status by another sovereign act of the leader, it should be pointed out that the territorial specialization is by no means impenetrable, even under the current protectorate statute. In accordance with Article 1(2) of the Decree, the Führer may, in accordance with the requirements of the Reichsdefense, adopt deviating regulations for certain parts of the Protectorate region, i.e. separate territories, towns, cities, etc., from the Protectorium area. These regulations are also an expression of the fact that the Protectorate cannot lead to an independent existence under international law and, moreover, it is no longer possible to establish itself in international law. Like the incorporation of the parts of the former Czecho-Slovak State forming the present Protectorate.