English Translation

12 prisoners who claim to be a foreign national and not a protectorate court must therefore be examined in each individual case when they have obtained residence in the Protectorate and have obtained foreign nationality. (a) persons for whom the other conditions for acquiring the membership of the Protectorate are laid down in the Regulation and who are not required until after the 15th day following the date on which they were registered as a member of the Court of Justice of the European Communities. In March 1939, the Czech emigrants who fled abroad after the establishment of the Protectorate must always be regarded as members of the protectorate, even if they should have obtained a foreign nationality in addition to the law of a third state. An exception applies only to cases in which such persons have acquired the foreign, Slovak or Hungarian nationality. In this case, most Czech legionaries and other technics serving in the ranks of the enemy Wehrmacht should be regarded as members of the protectorate. II. No one believes that the prisoners belonging to the protectorate cannot be treated as prisoners of war in the legal sense, as can German nationals who are imprisoned in the service of the enemy war power. This also applies to those cases in which the protectorate member has become a member of that state, for example, according to the legal view of the enemy state. Since no State is obliged to hold an account of measures taken against its own nationals by foreign authorities under international law, I agree with the view expressed by the Foreign Office that a right to