Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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145 links were also used to break even their alleged dislike for work at the initiative of the management of individual races. (383) Businesses had considerable freedom in disciplinary measures against foreign civilian workers. The scale of sanctions ranged from internal measures to the involvement of the Gestapo. The company first issued a warning, if any, relating to wage reductions, when repeated, by issuing a warning to the employment office or to the relevant state police service, which could order a maximum of three weeks imprisonment without the participation of the court. Only then the employment authority, through the Reichske Treuhänder, submitted a work of criminal complaint to the prosecutor, which was soon completely overloaded. (384) From the point of view of the perverse racial theories of the Nazis, it was not spared snooping and persecution or intimate life employed in Germany, including the Czechs. Extramarital sexual intercourse of workers from the Protectorate with Germans and Germans was also imposed. (385) Extramarital intimate relations between Bohemia and Germans were not expressly prohibited by the legal standard, but - similar to Poles and Ostarbeiters - internal regulations. In the regulation of the head of security police and SD R.Heydrich of 29.4.41 it was then explicitly stated that extramarital intercourse between Czechs and German can cause unrest and disturb the working peace. In case of such sexual intercourse, protective custody should have been imposed on both wrongdoers. In the RSHA regulation of June 1942, even though the protectorate members were not thus threatened by draconian punishments, the directive was applied to the intercourse between the Germans and Polish civilian workers or prisoners. While the Poles could have been executed for this transgression, the Czechs were to be imprisoned for up to three weeks by the Gestapo authorities, and if that was not enough, they could have followed their placement in concentration camps. (386) Arbeitserziehungslager - AEL In the worst case, forced deployment got into the power sphere of RSHA (387) where they immediately threatened death (388) or dispatch to concentration