Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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167 2.3.4.7 Ingerence into the private sphere The transition from the peace economy to the war meant government ingerence even to areas otherwise reserved for most private law. Work-law relations in the Protectorate were subject to a hard regulation which, at the time of total deployment, went into criminal organisation of slave labor of entire young people in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. In particular, the intervention in private relations in the field of labour law was a regulation governing general labour obligations, ordering for work, even outside the territory of the Protectorate, restrictions on recruitment and dismissal of labour, but also on housing issues where the contractual freedom to dispose of flats was limited, etc. (453) 2.3.5 Land expropriation and construction of model models of German settlement Germanization of the space of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia "Czech-Moravian countries belonged to the living space of German nation for a thousand years. Violence and misconception have deliberately ripped them out of their historical environment and their subsequent involvement in the artificial formation of the Czech-Slovakia department has created an outbreak of constant unrest," says the opening sentences of Hitler's decree of 16.3.1939 on the establishment of a protectorate. "Repair" of this condition should have become germanization of people and space. While the people of the Protectorate were waiting for "racial inventory" and selection, who is suitable for Germanity, who for displacement or directly for disposal, it was also necessary to create conditions for the reception of new German settlers. In addition to germanization, the occupation of Czech countries should also mean other foods for 5 to 6 million Germans. (454)