Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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139 issued was punished by the district or government police office with a fine of up to 50,000 K or by prison within 6 months. If a fine was imposed, a substitute sentence was imposed in the case of its impregnability within 6 month according to the degree of blame. The deployment of secondary youth into TN units The first wave of deployment of Czech high school students within TN took place from autumn 1942 to early summer 1943. For a short period of time, some of them found themselves in Reichsland. TN members participated in the Protectorate, for example, in the construction of a future training camp in Milošov or were deployed for auxiliary work at Škoda Plzeň. (371) At the beginning of the summer of 1943, the Minister of Education and People's Awareness E. Moravec agreement with the management of TN in the Protectorate about 2000 Czech students of protectorate industrial schools for cleaning work after raids in the territory of the empire. In this second wave, the deployment concerned students who were to enter the third year of the higher industrial school, the second master school or the second year of abiturient course. The Ministry of Education made available lists of students of these years and then sent them call orders and provided their to a large extent formal health inspection and transport to the designated place. It was a deployment within the long-term emergency service. The persons concerned remained formally preserved the status of students and the deployment was euphemistically called "production practice." After a week's training in Prague in the premises of the Hotel Beránek in August 1943, about 500 Czech boys were transported to the most damaged areas of the empire in Porúří, which was barely 19 years old. During the journey, the transport was divided into groups of about 100 to 150 people who were gradually staying in Wuperthal, Dieseldorf and the second to last of our group remained in Dortmund. There for the first time stopped a long train made up of trucks and as future TN helfers we got off with wooden luggage on our shoulders. In the temporary dormitory we had prepared strawmakers for the sleepover.