Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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176 order penalty, further prosecutions in criminal and administrative proceedings for the same act were ruled out (§ 78). The penalty on the border of administrative and judicial punishment was the inclusion of the disciplinary labour camp, but in fact often more feared than judicial punishment, because the camp stay was in harsher conditions and was not limited in time when the release depended on the will of the headquarters of the camp (see for example. § 16 ost.2 vl.nař. č. 404/1942 Coll. on ensuring the stability of wages and salaries and work ethic from December 7th). (483) 2.4.2 The measures taken by the security authorities of the empire and the application of German criminal law by the Nazi courts 2.4.2.1 The measures of the German security police Among the most feared and most effective repressive instruments of the Nazis were components of the security and suppressive apparatus, whose organizational structure for the protectorate was completed by the decree of the Reich authorities of 1 September 1939, so called. Aufbauverordnung (484), which, among other things, seized the Reich Protector, possibly the Reims leader of the SS and the head of the German police along with him, took the administrative measures necessary to maintain security and order in the Protectorate also outside the limits otherwise set for it. This authority could even transfer it freely. It was a bianko check for any form of repression against anyone. (485) The basic and most numerous component of the security police (Sicherheitspolizei-Sipo) consisted of the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei-Gestapo), which started to operate on the territory of the Protectorate through various emergency units ©Einsatzkommand ©on the first day of occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia-Slovenska. (486) The main office of the Gestapo (Stapoleitstelle) in Prague and Moravia in Brno was established in Bohemia, where they took over the agenda of the existing two operating groups, which came into the Protectorate immediately with the occupying troops. (487)