STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1996, sig. 109-7/3

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15a -2- conflict. According to the government decree on the membership of the protectorate of January 194o (SdGuv. No. 19), members of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia have become all those former Czechoslovak citizens who a) on 16 January. (b) on 10 March 1939, they were domiciled in a municipality in the territory of the Protectorate, or On 1 October 1938, she resided in a municipality of the former Czechoslovak countries of Bohemia and Moravia/Silesia, which was then united with the German Reich, but maintained the Czechos-Slovak nationality or had acquired it back by option or ns ebT c) was a Czech national and on 1 June 1938 she was a member of the Czech Republic. R "S UO Scarmoaetedo Bedasa Only those persons who have acquired a different nationality after the loss of the Czecho-Slovak nationality have not obtained the right of residence in Slovakia or the Karpatho-Ukraine. However, this does not apply to persons who -adoim only after the 15th century had died. In March 1939, they left their residence in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, unless they acquired the German, BAN Slovak or Hungarian nationality. t In this legal situation, most Czech legionaries may have acquired the status of protectorate even if they were before the 16th century. In March 1939, the Czechoslovaks had left the Czecho-Slovak, since they probably had the right of residence in the area T - the Protectorate and in Slovakia or Karpatho-Ukraine, without having acquired a foreign (French, English) nationality before 15 March 1939. In the case of all prisoners of Czech nationality, therefore, according to the circular decree of the Minister of the Interior dated 7 June 1940 (special print No. 75 from the Ministerial Gazette of the Reich and Prussia Ministry of the interior 1940 No. 24) it is necessary to state whether they belong to the Protectorate A 1t Areblvt 95546