English Translation

180 methods were applied in the Protectorate especially during the May uprising in Prague. (499) 2.4.2.2 Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS In addition to the courts and the police played a role among the instruments of oppression in the third rear of the occupation army, which was ready at any time to support and eventually implement the repression of the security apparatus. In March 1939 General Erich Friderici was appointed as a representative of the German defence authority at the office of the Reich Protector. He held the function until his appeal on 1 October 1941. Since until 1943 the territory of the Protectorate was not the gate district (Wehrkreis), there was no commander of the Wehrmacht. Later this function was associated with the function of the German defence authority at the Office of the Reich Protector and in 1945 it was held by General Rudolf Toussaint. In addition, they worked in the Protectorate and Waffen-SS, respectively their militarily organized predecessors of the so-called SS-Verfügungstruppen (SS-VT) and SS - Totenkopfverbände (SS -TV). The SS units were part of the occupation forces in the Czechoslovak border area after the signing of the so-called Munich Agreement in the autumn of 1938 and the occupation of the rest of Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939. (500) After the military administration of the Protectorate and its takeover by the civilian authorities, the SS forces in Czech countries gradually gained an exclusive position. From 28 April 1939 he was the senior commander of the SS and the police of Karel Hermann Frank. (501) In his commanding power was the command and coordination of all SS organizations in the territory of the Protectorate, i.e. from general (Allgemeine-SS) to units of military organized. Crews of SS units were usually buildings dissolved by the Czechoslovak army. Casárna in Ruzyně was named after the Reich leader SS Heinrich Himmler and former cadet after Adolf Hitler. The main task of the SS forces was initially to protect the buildings of the central offices of the German occupation administration.