English Translation

However, they were much better off than workers from Western Europe or from states friendly with Germany. However, compared to Poles and obalbeiters, they did not usually have a limited freedom of movement, they usually did not have to wear a special label and were threatened with lower penalties for offenses. In individual areas of the empire, access to protectorate members differed, but the attitude of the management of individual businesses and accommodation camps was also important. In particular, concerns about the political situation in the Protectorate were sought by representatives of the occupying administration to clarify the state status of the Czechs deployed in the Empire. This effort, however, did not lead to a concrete improvement in their conditions following the formal reinforcement of the position of the protectorate members of the empire. (380) (c)Taught workers, without any apparent influence on their own existential conditions and with significantly above-average mortality, included civilian workers from Poland and the Soviet Union, but also Polish non-Jewish and Italian prisoners of war. d)Teached workers without any influence on their own existential conditions and with extremely high mortality. They were Polish Jewish and Soviet prisoners of war, prisoners of concentration camps and labor camps, but also the working Jews from the camps forced to work from the ghetto. (381) The position of Czech workers in Germany depended on the ambivalence that resulted in the establishment of the protectorate. Although the Czechs formally became members of the "Third Reich" but in terms of their position they were, as already in March 1939 aptly expressed by the Nazi legal expert Wilhelm Stuckart , , rather by the special-type residents (Inlander besonderer Art), they were to be treated as foreigners and members of a lesser race in relation to the empire. (382) Although they were covered by the same wage and labour legislation as the Germans, otherwise they were subject to similar restrictions as foreign workers.They were not allowed to move their families behind them or visit their relatives from the Protectorate. After the outbreak of World War II, their term contracts were usually extended to unlimited periods and, if they were accommodated in private, they had to move gradually to the building camps for foreign workers.Since 1939, the Gestapo also paid more attention to Czech workers. Compared to German workers, they were not only subjected to much more severe penalties for various offences, but to sharp police methods, including the imposition of protective measures.