Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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English Translation

169 the arrival of German emigrants from the upper country Rada (oberlandrati) in Prague and Brno, who intended to establish Germans and build military bases along lines leading from Vienna to Wroclaw and Olomouc to the north and along the Czech-Moravian border from Silesia to Austria. (460) Racial inventory of the population should also complement the inventory of property suitable for the settlement plans of the Nazis by setting up the so-called "Nazis." cards to the farmyards. In the summer of 1940, five-member groups of students from Austria, Germany and Sudeten appeared in České Budějovice, Brno, Olomouc and Jihlava, whose task was, in the words of the Office of the Reich Protector, to write down the biological and social structure of each piece of property in the area, to pay attention to, among other things, the geography of Czech-German property, credit records and the state of agricultural areas, etc. (461) According to the original ideas of the Nazis, the German language islands were to connect to 150,000 families of SS members, war veterans and ethnic Germans from southern Tyrol and southeast Europe. From this purpose, as an unrealistic and additionally threatening peace in the Protectorate, Nazis soon retreated. (462) In addition to the arsonization of Jewish farms, Czechs were affected by confiscations of property in the countryside, including land. During 1942 to 1944 there was a gradual eviction of the population from Benešovsko, Neveklovska and Sedlčanska, where training space for the German army was established. By 15 April 1944 65 municipalities, 144 settlements, 5 682 houses were cleared here. The emigrants could initially take with them live and inanimate inventory, in the next stages the residents were forced to leave all the property in place. The smaller part of the population that remained was forced to supply the training ground. To ensure the nutrition of military troops, officers of the SS and their families and the remaining indigenous inhabitants were established. SS-Hofy, agricultural farm units formed from previous estates or by joining groups of existing estates. Pond, forestry and gardening units (SS-Teichwirtschaft, SS forste and SS - Gartenbau) were created on the territory. There was a daily work including Saturdays and Sundays, employees received not very large wages and deputation. A similar event was carried out by the Nazis in 1941©1945 also in Moravia, where in the area