English Translation

143 police formations. During the allied air raids on German cities in 1942 © 1943 so the Czech members intervened Technical emergency assistance of motorized regiment fire police, anti-aircraft police forces and obsessive battalions protectorate police. (378) The status of the Czechs in the work of Mark Spoerer in the publication "Taught work under the hook cross" (379) uses three criteria in the categorization of foreign workers in the empire: 1. legally institutionalized option to terminate employment; 2. possibility to at least influence the circumstances of the employment; 3. chance of survival. According to these criteria, foreign civilian workers, prisoners of war are divided into four groups: (a) voluntary foreign civil workers; (b) forced workers with partial influence on the conditions of their own existence; (c) forced personnel with no apparent influence on their own existential conditions; (d) forced labour without any influence on its own existing conditions. (a) The good foreign civilian workers could leave Germany at the latest after the end of the contract of employment, usually concluded for six to twelve months. They had the possibility to influence their existential conditions also through appropriate representation of their own country in Berlin. This group included working from satellite states © Bulgaria, Italy (until 1943), Croatia, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary, from neutral Spain and from occupied Denmark. In addition, there are a number of workers from western and south-eastern Europe who came to Germany voluntarily in the first war years. (b)Teached workers with partial influence on the conditions of their existence and with normal or slightly increased mortality. They were subject to service obligations regardless of whether they originally came to Germany voluntarily or forcefully, but had little chance of improving their existential conditions. This included civilian workers from occupied areas outside Poland and the Soviet Union, unless they belonged to a group of volunteers, in addition to various prisoners of war mainly from Belgium, France, Great Britain and Yugoslavia, and probably to this group can be included the professionally deployed Czechs from the Protectorate.