Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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131 (State Police) Office, by delivering the letter of invitation through the appropriate gendarmerie station, which provided for the deportation of the designated person to the nearest disciplinary labor camp. The detention into the disciplinary labor camps was a punishment, but the duration of the sentence was not determined. Classified persons may not be released before the expiry of three months after the inclusion and may or may not have been released after that period. The obligation to release a member of the disciplinary work camp occurred only if he became physically or mentally unfit to stay in the camp. Originally, the reason for the release from the camp and the occupation for military service, which was meaningless after the occupation of the rest of the Czech countries and the amendment mentioned, was released. In other cases, there was a total favour, who and when would be released from the disciplinary labor camp. At least 48 hours a week should be worked. Classified persons were not entitled to a holiday. (344) Slavic work on the territory of the Protectorate The laid slave labor on the protectorate's territory represented mainly at the end of the war branch of Nazi concentration camps, which worked completely outside the Protectorsate structure. In 1942, the SS made the basic organisational conditions for the deployment of prisoners of concentration camps more effective by centralizing tasks in the newly established Main Economic and Administrative Office of the S SS (SS Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt - SS-WVHA). Companies could report their need for prisoners to the SS-WVHA and, in the event of a positive decision, the relevant concentration camp was entrusted with the establishment of a subsidiary camp and security organization. In other cases, prisoners were offered to companies by state authorities. The companies paid an SS fee according to the sex and qualifications of the prisoners and took care of the accommodation and diet of prisoners and their guards. In the Protectorate, foreign workers and prisoners from concentration camps were deployed rather uniquely because of the concern that their inhuman conditions would not cause negative reactions to the Germans in the local population (mostly about 40 branches of concentration camps in the Czech Republic were located in Sudeten), yet the SS reached