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112 adequately reflected in the standard design and application of law in the Protectorate and its institutional collateral, when formal continuity with so-called "voluntary recruitment" was characteristic for the period 1939 - 1940. the second Republic, in the next period of 1941-1942, when forced labour begins to prevail, this continuity is torn by the administration under the order of the Reich (Reichsauftragsverwaltung) and in the years of mass involuntary transfers to the empire starting in 1943 these transfers are organised mainly by Germanized so-called. In other words, the greater the demands of the Nazis on the working deployment of the population of the Protectorate and its enslavement, the more effective and unmediately the occupying power must have been, the less she cared about maintaining the appearance of the legality of its actions. 2.3.2.1 "Processive recruitment" (1939-1940) The organization of voluntary recruitment into Germany began already under the so-called Second Republic, when the German Government, by diplomatic means, requested from the Czech Government the labor force for agriculture, metal industry and construction. At the interministerial meeting in December 1938 it was proposed to give a evasive answer to the German Government (299), but under the pressure of the Nazis a convention was reached in January 1939 in which quotas were set for " voluntary recruitment to Germany, which then continued until 1940. The convention allowed to hire up to 41 000 Czechoslovakos. It was developed into three agreements governing the issues of agricultural seasonal workers, permanent agricultural workers and trade workers. Some passages of the agreements demonstrate the clear dominance of the German party, which, for example, reserved the right to change employment contracts, only before the more important changes to the detriment of the workers had the Czechoslovak. (300) The voluntary recruitment was recorded by the fact that in early 1939 there was still relatively high unemployment in the Czech-Slovak Republic. In the Protectorate itself there were 93 000 registered unemployed and even more of those who had