Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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105 importance issued mainly by the Reich authorities, the Reim Protector and partly also by the autonomous government and other Protectorate authorities, and often only by the so-called Aryan section, contained in otherwise racially neutral standards. Aryan paragraphs were mentioned in about four dozen government regulations (280), which first appeared in Government Regulation No.139/1939 Coll. on the placement and other provision of employees of military administration and longer serving from June 6, 1939, which in Section 27 inter alia released employees of the military administration, and of longer serving Jewish origin in active service to permanent retirement. 224/1939 Coll., extending the effectiveness of certain measures in the deferral of executions and bankruptcy, according to which the provisions of this Regulation do not apply to those debtors who were of Jewish origin, Jewish enterprises or associations; in Section 28 of Decree No. 44/1940 Coll., containing special provisions on proceedings before the courts of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and temporarily changing certain provisions of civil law, according to which anyone who is Jewish or pays for a Jew cannot rely on protection under the provisions No. 1st II. and III. of this Regulation, which in special cases provided the protection of the debtor against execution or bankruptcy and imposed limitation periods. Ust. Section 3 (2) of Government Decree No. 246/1943 Coll. of 4.9. on the Protection Service excluded "persons who appear to be unreliable, Jews and Jewish mixed persons of 1st degree, etc. (281) Similar sections such as Aryan concerning Gypsies contained less than a dozen government regulations. (282) These standards were followed by dozens and hundreds of regulations and regulations of different legal forces, which introduced degenerate racial principles into everyday life. In Helena Petrův's view, there was a certain difference between the reich's regulation and the regulation of the protectorate, when the imperial laws were directed primarily against Jews, but their basic purpose was to preserve racial purity. It was therefore more of a anti-Jewish measure than a racial one in the sense of the Nuremberg Law on the Protection of German Blood. (283).