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191 2.4.3 Intense terror The form of "intense terror" with the words of post-war Nazi crime investigators understood the period when the destruction of the victims occurred immediately after their arrest, at the most within a short period of time after it. It was really a spectracular terror that was supposed to act in an intimidating way on a wide variety of populations. (538) According to the Czechoslovak Government Commission for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals (ČKVZ) four periods were included among the forms of so-called intense terror in the Protectorate: The events of student riots on October 28 and November 17, 1939, the first martial law announced by Heydrich in September 1941 to January 1942, the second martial right following the assassination of Heyddrich in May to July 1942. The last fourth period was the repression of civilians from August 1944 to the end of the war, associated with the process of the queue, which ended in May 1945. Undoubtedly the darkest period of intense terror is associated with R. Heydrich, who, as the highest political and police authority in the Protectorate, exceeded the last remnants of the appearance of legality and loosened the floodgates covered by and violence. He created a police model for issuing and executing judgments according to which it was possible to intervene without restriction any citizen of the Protectorate regardless of his social status. Simplicity in the questions of the ortels of death ©this would correspond completely to his ways, said after the war at Heydrich's address the deputy commander of the Prague Gestapo J. Ilmer. (539) On full turn, this criminal machine started in the time of the "heydrichias" (540) after the assassination of Heydlich and culminated in the extermination of the villages of Lidice and Ležáky. "For the first time since the beginning of the war, organized death was demonstrated into the public life of Czech cities and towns." (541) Immediately as Heydrich joined the position of acting Reich Protector, the Prague Office of the Secret Police launched a targeted selection of personalities whose death would be appropriate to intimidate the public. The martial courts established by the main Gestapo offices in Prague and Brno, which in connection with the declaration of martial law, were active in the Protectorate in 1941 © 1942. The basic standard here became the Reich Protector's regulation on exceptional civilian