Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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138 non-incorporated Reichs Act on Technical Emergency Assistance of 25 March 1939, meant a "legal" basis for the existence of TN units on the protectorate territory. TN in the Protectorate was subject to the commander of the police in Prague, which gradually created casterné units here. Czech members of the TN served in a relatively large number also in the territory of the empire. Crafts were first sent to bombed German cities, especially construction workers. Their first transport went to the empire in August 1943. Later, deployment at TN touched mainly students of secondary schools. (367) The establishment of the Protectorate Technical Emergency Assistance (Protectorate TNP), as a technical auxiliary police unit uniformed by the Protectors' Police, brought up the Government Regulation No. 109/1944 Coll. on Protectorates' Technical Emergency Aid from 10. May (368) which was to provide technical assistance in emergency situations and meet certain public tasks of a technical nature, in particular in anti-aircraft protection, and was therefore subject to police authorisation when deployed to defend against public emergencies. Although the operation in the Protectorate TNP was to be optional as far as possible, it was stated in Section 3 (2) that if voluntary forces are not sufficient to carry out the tasks of the protectorate technical emergency assistance, obliged persons may be "accepted' under the applicable regulations. At the head of the Protectorate TNP was the general commander of the uniformed protectorate police, who was the highest official and disciplinary leader of all its members. Protectorates TNp could be deployed outside the territory of the protectorates. ((369) Forced summoning of obliged persons, i.e. members of the protectionate, men between 18 and 60 years of age, also included in the service government regulation No. 246/1943 Coll. on the protection service of 4 September (370), the object of which was the protection of public facilities, vital businesses, forests, fields, crops, etc. from "villain damage'. The protection service was called upon by its members and issued by the mayor of the municipality or the city. This protection service could have been performed in addition to the employment relationship and were excluded from it according to the so-called. Aryan § 3 paragraph 2 persons who are apparently unreliable, Jews and Jewish mixed men of the 1st degree. Members of the Protection Service made a promise.