Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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108 households of foreign nationals who stayed only temporarily in the Protectorate. Nor did the inheritance right remain spared when the above-mentioned government regulation in Section 4 as a penalty for violating the prohibition of marriage allow a resident who is a protectorate and is not a Jew or a Jewish half-breed with two completely Jewish grandparents to inherit a descendant who is the Protectorate member and who is not Jewish or Jewish mixed-breech with two totally Jewish grandparents if he married in violation of the regulation. The Protectorate Ministry of the Interior and its subordinate political authorities were the Government Decree No. 85/1942 Coll. the obligation to ensure that public order, peace and security, as well as public morality are not threatened by the contact of Jews with other inhabitants.• In carrying out these tasks, both the Ministry of the Interior and the relevant political authorities have been empowered to issue bans and restrictions on the contact between Jews and other residents (§ 9). This broadened the possibility of issuing police measures against Jews, which had been possible to issue on the territory of the Protectorate only on the basis of the Act on the Organisation of Political Administration (Act No. 125/1927 Coll.). By adopting the Government Regulation No.85/1942 Coll., the fourth definition of the concept of Jew came into the legal order of the protectorate in Section 1. The first definition contained the Reich Protector's Regulation on Jewish Property of 21.6.1939, the second amended the Government Decree No. 136/1940 Coll. on the Legal Status of Jews in Public Life, and the third was the original definition from the first implementing regulation of the Imperial Interior Minister of 14 November 1935 to the Act on Reich Citizenship, adopted by the Third Implementing Decree of 5. July 1941 to the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, which stipulated, among other things, that in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia the law for the protection of German blood and honor of 15 September 1935 applies from the effective date of the decree on the establishment of the protectorate on March 16, 1939. February 1940 supplementing the first implementing regulation of November 14, 1935 to the German Blood and Honor Protection Act. (290) In all definitions, the concept of Jew understood on a racial basis, however, religious affiliation was the main criterion for determining the racial affiliation of grandparents and for determining first-degree Jews and half-breeds in persons with two