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137 rose during the war, when its members usually intervened in the destruction of the damage after the raids. It was a very dangerous work in the ruins of houses with often unexploded ammunition and psychologically demanding due to numerous bombing victims whose mutilated bodies were rescued from the wreckage. "Sometimes just after the air raid, part of our crew was taken to nearby cities, where we were assigned to rescue people buried or entire families in houses that were directly hit. For the first time in our lives, each of us came into contact with the remains of torn human bodies - none of us will ever forget that, " says František Jílek, a student of the industrial school of construction in Resslova Street in České Budějovice, deployed as a 1924 TN section in Dortmund. (362) Forced deployment also became victims of bombing. 15 Czech boys deployed at TN died in a raid on Berlin. In addition to the professional command corps and voluntary members, the TN was responsible for carrying out the tasks of a professional command body and the voluntary members primarily of persons assigned to the long-term emergency service under the above-mentioned Imperial Emergency Service Regulation of 15 October 1938, which was recruited for the territory of the Protectorate with certain derogations by the order of the trustee for the four-year plan of H.Göring and Reich Interior Minister W.Frick of 25 November 1939. (363) Under this Regulation, Oberlandrati or their designated protectorate authorities could call all residents aged 15 to 60 to the emergency service. The purpose of the profession was formulated very widely. It could be emergency conditions such as floods, fires, traffic accidents, mining disasters, weather disasters, earthquakes, etc. In addition, however, work mobilisation could have been declared to protect military-economic facilities (e.g. digging trenches) and securing and maintaining vital businesses, i.e. for war purposes. "In these cases, it was nothing more than the use of civilians for armsless war operations," writes Jaroslav Houser. (364) The Reich Order of November 25, 1939 was invoked by the appeal orders for protectorate members to TN, which were issued by the authorities "by order of the Reich" at least in 1942-1943 by the Protectorate Public and Police Authorities. (365) Only the regulation of the Reich Interior Minister of July 10, 1942 on the introduction of the Imperial Rules on Technical Emergency Assistance in the Protectorate (366), i.e. still