Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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130 Protectorate police were also the founder of the camps and issued regulations on their organization and disciplinary order. The government regulation then in Section 18 promised impunity to those persons who committed offenses prior to the effectiveness of this government regulation and whose commission was announced no later than 1. April 1943 of the Labour Office or the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, before a notice was made or an investigation was initiated on this person and without any immediate danger of being discovered. Both Regulations (No.154/1942 Coll. on Labour Management and 404/1942, Coll. on the provision of work ethic) provided a direct legal basis for sharpened labour acquisition methods. It should be noted here that the establishment of educational work camps really followed the legislation of the so-called Second Republic. on the work units of October 11 (342), the unemployed who were forced to be organized into paramilitary units were affected. The legal status of members of the labour services towards the State was a service relationship and were all sides of the service under the headquarters of the working unit in which they were assigned. They were subject to military disciplinary powers and, if they committed judicial crimes, military jurisdiction, when they were treated according to the I. part of the military criminal law 19/1855 Art. (II. part defining the facts of military crimes did not apply to them). Special Delegation, which studied German working formations at the end of 1938, in particular the infamous labour training camps (Arbeitserziehengelager-AEL), adopted the Government Regulation No. 72/1939 Coll. on disciplinary labor camps from March 2nd (343), which was amended by Government Decree No. 188/1939 Sb. of April 28, in which the cancelled Ministry of National Defence replaced the Ministry of Interior as the founder of the camps. Members of the labour services who violated discipline were included in the camp. In addition, they included "persons working with shields" which could have been interpreted very widely and could have also been used against the regime of uncomfortable persons. Persons to be assigned to disciplinary labor camps were designated by the district