Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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10 on the battlefields and in the Nazis of occupied areas, the Czech President Václav Klaus declared, among other things, on the occasion of the anniversary of the tragic events of November 1939. ((7) Although the criminal nature of Nazism has long been decloaked and its crimes are being tried, there remains still enough room to raise further questions and search for answers. In his book Prague in Černý, American historian Chad Bryant asks an unspoken question when he writes that "the protectorate was the first non-German territory occupied by Nazi Germany. During those six long years, the Nazi government has completely changed the economy, political practices and relations between people... More than 400,000 Czech officials have supervised a total of 10,000 German officials and bureaucratic apparatus, according to almost all reports, worked smoothly until the end of the war." (8) To what extent has the right of a formed Nazi contributed to this radical transformation of the country and where were its borders, as instruments of Nazi expansion? Could the so-called autonomous standardization of Czech protectorate bodies dull and slow down the main postulates of Nazi policy consisting of economic extortion of the country, implementation of racial regulations, categorization of the population and Germanization of the entire space, or was it destined to participate in their implementation? This work is intended to make a small contribution to a closer understanding of the mechanisms in implementing the expansionist Nazi policy, to which the Nazi law, or more appropriate "right of injustice," was also partying to effective instruments. The behaviour of the Czech population must be even more appreciated when looking at the reality of the Protectorate, which in its whole has never been opposed to the Nazi occupation and where it was possible, it resisted even at the cost of life. It is therefore not true that the Czechs "so much Sunday" (9) and that "Czechs have always tried to sail without pain" at historical crossroads. (10) The period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in professional literature is very richly processed and devoted to it by generations of historians, lawyers, philosophers... Undoubtedly, its continuity is positive for this research, when even in the belief of social transformations, the dramatic period of our history remains unchanged in essential respects, although with other accents mostly in the evaluation of the importance of various resistance movements and in a much more open view of the issue of collaboration