STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 82, sig. 109-1/88

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5a -6- protection by the German Reich contradicts. A special clarification that individual Czechoslovak laws still exist does not in principle require. The cesetzes of the Reich do not apply easily in the Protectorate. It is necessary to expressly extend the laws of the Reich, which will be passed in the future and which will also apply to the Protectorate, to the protectorate; already existing Reichsrecht must be introduced in Protectorate during regulation, if it is to apply there. The Czech laws contrary to the sense of taking over protection by the Reich cease to apply.The determination of which laws cease to be effective will primarily have to be met by the Imperial Protector. 2. The Protectorate carries its own flag and its own seal. 3. The inhabitants of the Protectorate, with the exception of the people of Germany who are German nationals in accordance with Article 2, have the nationality of the protectorate. According to the will of the leader, they are not to be treated as foreigners either domestically or abroad in relation to the Reich. It is therefore not applicable to them the provisions on foreign passports, foreign police, residence and work permits.However, a visa is to be imposed for the entry of practitioners into the Reich. At the border between the Protectorate and the Reich no border controls are to take place; rather, the entry of protectorate members without a visa is to be prevented by high penalties. The former Czechoslovak statesmen residing abroad shall, according to the wishes of the Führer, also become members of the Protectorate, insofar as they are in relations with the territory belonging to the Protectorates, i.e. they are entitled to live there. Marriages between members of the Protectorate and those subject to immunization will become more a special feature of the protectorate's citizens after the death of the proteltor.