Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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127 1941 gave occupation law to the authorities of work the opportunity to order work only within the borders of the so-called Protectorate, although it was also bypassed by voluntary recruitment (see above). In particular, the need for the amendment was triggered by war with the Soviet Union, when the Eastern Front demanded further extensive mobilisation, and when the lack of labour led to the escalation of demands for the transfer of labor from the Protectorate to other territories of the Empire. 154/1942 Coll., which takes some measures on the management of work from 4 May (337) which replaced vl.no.46/1941 Coll. and its amendment, vl .no. 10/1942 Sb., and allowed to call virtually anyone, men and women, without age restrictions on work even outside the Protectorate, even in time without limit. While the commandment to work should have been limited for a limited period, it could have been extended without further specifying the length of the extension and its reasons. The admissibility of the ordering of persons in employment was limited by the provisions of Section 4, which stated that "It is possible to take account of the personal and economic circumstances of persons to be ordered. First of all, it is for the unemployed to be commanded and those who have no profession and are not fully employed.The persons who are married and are to be ordered only if there are not enough suitable free persons. An employer is to be heard before the commandment of the persons employed. Persons employed can only be ordered if it requires a special political or economic interest in carrying out the intended work. This is taking into account the general interest of the race and of its employees."The order of the ordered persons, which stated the government regulation, was just a non-binding directive (according to "opportunity to be taken into account") for the employment authorities and did not establish any subjective law (work-based) which could be allowed, for example, by appeal against the measure. (338) The purpose of the deployment should be to work which served the country's defences, to provide nutrition, to produce consumer goods, to make economic use of the country, to improve transport conditions, as well as to overcome emergencies and natural disasters." To this end, public and private undertakings and administrations could be ordered to release certain workforces except for agricultural establishments (§ 1). The command of men's labor could have been about all kinds of work, and this force should have been