English Translation

148 Auflockerung © Release: Raumung About Clearing: Lahmung, Zerstorung The destruction The end of 1944 brought a new form of forced labor during the digging of trenches. On 20th January 1945, for example, 40,000 people were sent to the foothills of Moravian-Silesian Beskydy for trench work. In this context, Frank issued a regulation on inviting the civilian population to the trench work in the Protectorate, which also affected boys from 1927 and 1928. The Czech agricultural youth built anti-tank roadblocks at the Lake Nezider in Dolnoduna County in the winter months. In the spring of 1945, members of 1927 and 1928, who had previously gone to build field fortifications on Moravia, were sent to the trenches. Thousands of other people were deployed to war important businesses in the territory of the Protectorate or mobilized for the construction of German fortresses near the eastern front. (396) In the autumn of 1944 work started on the ARLZ measures according to the German Auflockerung release: Raumung clearing: Lahmung, Zerstorung, annihilation, whose realization was to guarantee that the Allies would only be the "burned country" in the event of success. This was already written epilogue of the so-called Third Reich. (397) Since 1944, when the factories were increasingly bombarded, young people from the Protectorate and other countries have taken advantage of inconspicuous situations and fled home, but were forced to hide from the Gestapo. There are also cases of lynching especially escaped prisoners of concentration camps deployed in the empire on slave labor by local German inhabitants, called zebra hunts. Many forced workers have been withdrawn from businesses in the last weeks before the liberation and sent for heavy ground and forging work. After air attacks, many Germans and foreigners have remained without a roof over their heads and without work, and food supplies have collapsed. Ironically, the main cause was the collapse of public order