English Translation

158 2.3.4 Economic explosion - transition from a peaceful economy to war; corporateism; penetration of German capital into industry; arson; a system of forced levies in agriculture; absolute submission of the country's economy to the needs of total war (1943-45) By the occupation of the countries of Bohemia and Moravia and the establishment of a protectorate, the empire gained space for easy prey and control of the local property, whether through arisation, its confiscating opponents of the regime or monetary policy and the vacuuming of economic and human resources for the war effort of the Nazis. (424) The most intensive use of the industrial capacity of the Protectorate, on whose territory there were about 70% of the former Czechoslovak industrial enterprises, meant a significant increase in production for the war economy of the empire. According to estimates, the Protectorate was 9 - 12% of the total industrial production of the empire. ((425) "Involvement of the industry of Bohemia and Moravia brought to the German economy an increase in large industries, which are now at the highest level of performance in the 'old empire'. Both in iron and steel production and iron processing industry, but mainly in engineering, thanks to the connection of the Czech Moravian economy, the question of increasing performance to a new stage has entered. The large German industry has now grown by considerable capacity," Frank wrote on 28 December 1940 to Deutsche Wirtschaftszeitung. (426) 2.3.4.1 The transition from a peaceful economy to a war-efficient mining of the occupied territory was intended to facilitate the government's regulation No.309/1940 Coll. on adapting the economy of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia economy to the Great German Empire of 19 September (427) by which the government empowers