Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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On 27 September 1939 they were reorganized and centralized in the Main Office for the Safety of the Empire - RSHA (Reichssicherheitshaupt der SS) to achieve maximum coordination in war conditions. Frank, in his capacity as senior head of the SS and the police, was directly in line with the Reich's SS leader and German police chief Himmler, and he could command security forces to do anything according to his own decision, regardless of the RSHA, especially in exceptional cases. (491) The SS, and the security police, also managed the so-called. The headquarters for Jewish evictionship (Zentrallstelle für judische Auswanderung) in Prague, which originally served to measure all documents and formalities during the evictions of Jews and which was established by Neurath from 31 July 1939. (492) In 1942, renamed the Central Office for the Organisation of Jewish Questions in Bohemia and Moravia (Zentralamt für die Regelung der judenfrage in Böhmen und Mähren) organized the seizure of Jewian property and transport to Terezín, where she managed the German camp commandoture. The police authorities were officially authorized to take security measures, including. They themselves decided on the protective custody (Schutzhaft) and sent to concentration camps persons who were never tried, or the court acquitted them, or they had already served proper prison sentences. On September 1940 (493), the Reich Interior Minister's regulation on the fight against and prevention of crimes by the police, issued pursuant to the Imperial President's decree on the protection of the nation and state of 28.3.1933. (494) In the framework of the Institute of Special Treatment (Sonderbehandlung), executions were ordered without trial after the approval of the Remper's leader and head of German police Himmler. He was awarded on the proposal of the head of the Gestapo office and after a possible statement by the Reich Protector if there was a political interest in the matter. Sonderbehandlung was first used on the territory of the Protectorate against student leaders who were executed on November 17, 1939 without a trial. Later he was subject to so-called. special treatment directly to K.H.Frank, who, during the second martial law as a grouppenführer of the SS in the post of senior SS commander and police (der Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer - HSSPF) became head of Nazi