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26 - 2 - Since the Reich has taken over the military protection of the Protectorate and the protection of nationals of the protectorate abroad (Art.1, 6, 7 Decree of 16.III.39), there must be an obligation of the members of the protectionate not to fight against the Reich. This also states a decree of the Protectionate Government of 9.IX.39. It says: "... The government is paying attention to all members of the Protectorate with the greatest pressure to the fact that the entry into militant formations, whatever kind of treason, which are formed abroad, is punishable by the most severe penalties, in particular the government of the protectorate warns against the consequences that all those protectorate members who, as members of foreign military formations in the canopy, are caught with German troops." According to § 15 of V.0. of 14.IV.39 (RGBl.I p.756), §§ 80 to 93a RStgB (high and state treason) in the Protectorate also apply to nationals of the Protectorates. According to § 6 para. II z.1-a V. of 14.IV.39 (RGBl.I S.753), persons who, on 16.III.39, vare the inhabitants of the Pro- Nun'-Mi tektorat areas and gomit become nationals of the Protectorate, but have fled gind and vaccinated against the Reich, may become, according to § 91a RStcB t. 3.) All prisoners of war who have fled the Czech Republic and Moravia after joining them and have provided weapons aid against the Reich are subject to the Wehrmacht court pursuant to § 3 Kstvo. They have committed their act at any time at least shortly before the capture, in the German operating bid. In any case, the Reichskriegsgericht (Reichskriegesgericht) is called upon to give judgment. The field war courts in the operating area, which would be competent according to § 14 para. 4 Kstvo itself, held by the decree of the #l Oberkommendo der Wehrmacht from 6 August 1940 - 14 n 16 WR (I,3) - 478/40 g, to request the President of the Reich war court without taking over the investigation and judgment. II. Members of the former Czechoslovak Stsate who had already emigrated from Czechoslovakia before the 16th of July 1939 did not easily obtain the status of a protectorate. The decree of 16.11I.39 speaks only of inhabitants of Bohemia