Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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In addition to these two groups of victims, close relatives of the above mentioned persons were subjected to the highest punishment. Not only was the group of participants punished by the Nazis for providing assistance to the paratroopers, but they and members of their wider families were used in the legal history of unknown collective criminal liability. The monstrosity of this measure consisted of an attack on fundamental interpersonal relations, which provoked conflicts of conscience and justified fear of family members. In addition, Pseudoregulation ordered the execution of persons from 16 years of age, which contradicted the applicable Imperial Criminal Code, which allowed the capital punishment to be passed over a person over 18 years old, were in fact executed even 14 years old. (567) The third group included police officers. The violation of this fact was also punished after the end of the second exceptional situation. The last, broadest group were persons murdered on the basis of the facts of the assassination of the Reich Protector and the call for support of the perpetrators. A fatal, careless statement or a mere gesture in front of the informant became a series of victims. Those who made a remark on the validity of the assassination, even in the sense of a funny remark, could be actually included in the group of citizens who approved the a bombing. The error of "approval of the assassination" did not include the return of May 27, 1942 on declaring an exceptional condition at all (568) and this fact did not have to and mostly was not and was not shown to the victims. The Nazis also used this reason for execution to condemn people who did not commit any such act, the pre-selected personalities of Czech public life, where SD and the Gestapo assumed anti-Romani thinking. On June 3, 1942, an 18-year-old railway worker was shot for saying that in the company of his colleagues in the direction of two members of the secret police at the Plzeň railway station, "They also found h......" (569) The victims of the execution held on June 11, 1942 were also pregnant in the sixth month of MUDr. Anna Háková and her husband Václav Hák and hotelier Arnošt Velínský for "the celebration of the death of Heydrich" because MUDr.Háková in one of the lounges of the Velín hotel in Tábor turned off radio transmission from Prague's memorial service behind Heydrich. One of the katans remembered how Velinský after the delivery of the Ortel turned white. (570) Lieutenant former čs.