English Translation

18 Only after the victory over France in the summer of 1940 did the Nazis consider themselves strong enough to deal with the Czech problem comprehensively and completely without scruples. International considerations were long gone and with them the former considerations of the beginning of the occupation of the Central European space by international agreement. In such an atmosphere, two memoranda of this issue arise in the late summer months of 1940: the distingenated "diplomata" of Neuratha and SS-Obergruppenführer Frank. (18) Their starting points were essentially the same: the complete Germanisation of space and people quite simply, when Neurath talks about "exorcism" (Abstossen) of uncomfortable parts of the population and Frank about special treatment" (Sonderbehandlung) (19) for layers of intelligence of the enemy empire. This exits were taken over and further developed by the acting Reich Protector R. Heydrich. 1.2 The Protectorate, as the occipital background of the Third Reich, is the appearance of the normality of everyday life of the Czech Republic and Moravia's popularized model of the anexes of the countries of Bohemia and Morava in the form of a protectorate was given not only by foreign policy considerations of the Nazis, but also by pragmatic requirements of German financial and industrial circles to preserve the economic potential of the occupied territory. Analysts from Deutsche Bank wrote that in the case of correct administrative decisions, the protectorate industry could play a key role in the German economy. The famous arms industry of the Czech countries could do much to strengthen the German army. Moreover, radical policy could break relations with important trading partners in southeastern Europe. (20)