Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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11 etc. The work of the new generation of researchers, which has recently come out and from which the author richly draws: Helena Petr's "Terms of Law, Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia," the synthetic work of Pavel Maršálek "Under the protection of the hook cross, Nazi occupation regime in the Czech lands 1939-1945," impressive book by Vojtěch Kyncl "Without remorse," mapping terror against the Czech population for the heydrichias, the expected first edition of documents for the assassination of R. Heydrich by Vojtěch Šustek and the documents "They Worked for the Third Reich" by Zdeněka Kokošková, Jaroslav Pažout and Monika Sedláková. There is no mention of the books of Stanislav Motle, the last time the victims and their murderers, which bring this tragic issue to the attention of the general public. The "Guide of Protectorate Prague" by Jiří Padevět, who became in the Magnesia Litera competition as well as the book of 2014, which also shows the great interest of readers in this historical period. In addition to the already mentioned American historian Chad Bryan, who is considering some national aspects of Bohemia and Moravia and the plans of the Nazis for their Germanization, a young German researcher named René Küpper comes with a well-founded monograph by K.H Frank, not just as the second but the real movement in the Protectorate. For example, in this publication, Pavel Maršálek critically pauses himself over some of the evaluations of another well-known researcher Vojtěch Mastný in his book Protectorate and the fate of the Czech resistance, who, among other things, writes that "despite the initial difficulties, the protectorate industry adapted itself to a new market orientation with remarkable ease. Czech economic journals praised the benefits of the merger with the large state, while exporters were rich in German demand." The marshal is a "deep error" and convincingly argues that it was never really a partnership and that the Czech countries were "no more than a rich colony with considerable production possibilities that can be exploited and whose importance for arms production is negligible." (11) This argument has shown how dry statistical data can be misleading without confrontation with a wider historical context.