Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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173 loss of business license (§ 9) or closure of business (§ 10). Minor error was punishable on the spot by a block penalty up to 500 K (§ 13). The person suspected of the offence may have been detained (§ 12) by the public authorities who were members of the uniformed protectorate police, the uninformed Protectorate Police and the supervisory authorities responsible for supervising the compliance and implementation of the provisions in question. After the hearing, only persons who were particularly seriously guilty could continue to be detained and the total detention could last for up to 7 days. A rightful finding by which a sentence of imprisonment or a fine exceeding 30,000 K was imposed had to be published on the expenses of the sentenced person at least once in the daily newspaper. In addition, it was possible to impose a judgmental finding in addition to that publicly posted or otherwise publicly declared on the expense of the convicted person in the village where the culprit lives and in the municipality where he committed the crime (§ 17). did not contain an upper limit of the penalties imposed, only in the event that the prison sentence was imposed for more than four weeks or a cash penalty of more than 10,000 K, it had to be notified to the local police office, competent according to the residence of the culprit and entered in the police criminal register (§ 18). A number of government regulations explicitly contained a clause that the punishment of freedom, along with the alternative punishment, cannot exceed "the highest limit of the rate of punishment at liberty" (e.g. § 22 vl.nař.no. 209/1939 Coll. on the modification of the production, processing and disposal of milk, milk products and fats from September 27 and many others) (474) and it can be concluded that this principle also applied to administrative punishment under regulations which did not explicitly contain this provision. According to some of the trade regulations with the strictest sanctions, it was possible to impose a criminal penalty or prison penalty in administrative proceedings, or both, up to 1 million K and in prison up to 6 months, such as for violation of vl.nař.no.44/1943 Coll. on the release of the workforce to war important tasks of 11 February. (475) Rather curious, but for the disabled sometimes with dramatic impact, was vl .nařař. no. 239/1944 on measures against workers working in agriculture; and