Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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135 services to the arms industry. In this context, so-called testing of businesses took place and the desired employees were then to replace persons in worse health and working women. However, exchange actions did not meet the expectations of the Nazis. (354) Desperate lack of labour towards the end of the war led to an extension of the authority of the state apparatus on the section of total deployment. It became a government regulation No.1.77/1944 Coll. on the authorisation of ministers and the head of the Land Office for Bohemia and Moravia on extraordinary measures to implement a total war effort of 22. August (355), which authorised the relevant ministers and the head of the Land Fund to take the ordering route themselves all the measures needed for total war effort, for which it would otherwise require a law or a government regulation. The individual special regulations on labour management and work deployment issued at this time were dictated by the economic situation of Hitler's Germany (bombing of cities and industrial centres, economic disorders, population movements, etc.). on the registration obligations of men and women who, due to the aviation war, have left their current employment in July 8 (356), according to which persons who have left a separate job in their current business or non-separate employment in their existing aviation-risk or post-air-attack plant and who have remained in the Protectorate had to report without delay to the competent office of employment of their temporary residence and were thus incorporated into the compulsory labour system. They were imposed for non-compliance with the obligation of registration, as was normal for all regulations of this kind, high cash penalties or imprisonment. In the end, the year 1924 was deployed after certain delays, namely various places in both the Protectorate and Germany and Austria, unlike other years, women were involved. (357) Young people from this year worked not only on forced labor in the German war industry, but were also deployed in the framework of paramilitary labour and technical services (Luftschutz, Technische Nothilfe etc.). The event sparked a surge of individual requests to the employment offices, the ministry and the office of the so-called state president, in which the disabled or their parents asked to cancel the notice of deployment, delay or change. The archive material from this time gives an image of the desperation of parents whose children were to leave for