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136 work in endangered places outside the Protectorate. Very serious reasons of social and health (e.g. care and elderly and ill parents) were either rejected by the Labour Office or directly by the Ministry of Economy and Labour as insufficient or inconclusive. (358) Totaleinsatz culminated in the summer of 1944 when around 400,000 Czech men and women worked in the empire. Technische Nothilfe Since 1942, the deployment of Czech men and various German and Protectorate paramilitary formations, generally referred to as Technical Emergency Assistance (Technische Nothilfe - TN), the most important of which was the Organization Todt - (Organisation Toddt - OT), named after its leader, the General Inspector for Road Construction and Motorways F.Todt, who had the status of so-called. Accompanied by German defences of power. For the needs of the German army she performed important and often demanding construction work in the empire and throughout the occupied Europe, she participated in the construction of the so-called Atlanta Vala. During the war, the organization employed a huge number of foreign workers, prisoners and older people, and gradually members of more than 25 nationalities including the Czechs worked for her. (359) The Statute of the members of the TN was different from the statute of "classically" forced to deploy according to vl. nab. č.46/1941 Coll. and vl . no. 154/1942 Coll. on the management of work and other related regulations, according to which the new imposed workplace maintained a more or less private nature of the working relationship, although with the ingerence of the public authorities (see above). The deployment in the TN sections was, on the other hand, an emergency service regulation of 15 October 1938 (360) and the Technical Emergency Assistance Act of 25 March 1939 (361) and their members had the status of public officials in the performance of the service. TN units were incorporated into the systems of Nazi organizations as a technical component subordinate to the order police. Some better material security of members of these departments was balanced by paramilitary discipline and severe penalties for its violations. The importance of TN significantly