English Translation

17 - Thus arose the state-law form of the protectorate, which is an independent creation of National Socialist state thinking and has neither model nor parallels. The protectorate is not an independent subject of international law, but after the disintegration of the rest of the German Empire. Political treaties of the former state have expired - economic and commercial treaties have been left or adapted to the extent that they can be incorporated into the economic and trade policies of the empire. Reich treaties are valid in the Protectorate, even the old treaties between the Reich and CSR. are further regarded as domestic treaties (e.g. railway postal contracts). All autonomous rights are not exercised in accordance with the political, military and economic realms. The government power in the protectorate is based on the kingdom. The state power is derived from the empire. The sovereignty rights, which are the real attributes of a state authority, are lacking, so the military authority and the right to maintain own envoys. These sovereign rights have been found to be acceptable by the articles of the Führer's Decree, the taking over of the protectorate by the Great German Reich. For this purpose, the Reich maintains garrisons and military claims in the Protectorate. The 7000-man government force granted to the Protectorates is not a military, it has other tasks. Of the rights that the Protectorium has expressly granted, the most important is autonomy. According to Article 3 of the Führer's Decree, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is autonomous and manages itself. The right of autonomy encloses the power to place its own right in areas which the empire has not taken into its own administration and thus the life of the Czech people in its own management and in