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20 dedicated his labor to the German war effort and so that, in the huge existence of the arms industry here, we would not delay the supply and further weapons development, declared Heydrich. According to some estimates, at least 600,000 Czechs and another 2 million indirectly worked in the Protectorate directly for the German arms industry. (23) If, in general, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939-45 was an instrument for subjugating human and economic resources occupied by countries to the needs of the Nazi war machine, then the "right administrative decisions" to the maximum extraction of these resources by analysts from Deutsche Bank changed significantly over time. Institutional and legal provision of this main objective of the occupying power has gone through the development, dictated primarily by the variable position of German armies on world battlefields, or by the competitive struggle of Nazi power forces, whether protectorate or empire. In Nazi occupation policy, there are three different periods in professional literature: "Neurathian," "heydrich" and "French," which differed from one another in terms of priorities given above all by the global situation on the fronts, as well as conditions prevailing within the protectorate. And even though the processes of decision-making in the Protectorate were the result of both improvisation on the peripheries of the Nazi government and the orders from the centre, resulting from compromises and competition between authorities with overlapping competences, these three periods had a common overall pragmatic orientation which allowed the Nazis to find the most advantageous ratio between the applied terror and the political means of government in order to maximize the excavation of the occupied space. (24) "The politics of sugar and whip. By alternating cruelty and kindness, the occupiers wanted to establish a consensus between the masters and the conquered.", writes historian Heinz Höhne. (25) This thesis fully corresponds to the extremely brutal and forceful measures taken in response to the disturbances of the established order, be it possible for example. about protests from autumn 1939, the assassination of the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich or support of members of parachutist groups and partisans. Pragmatism of the occupation policy was not an obstacle to the Nazi plans to Germanize the occupied territory. The murder of Jews in the Protectorate and preparations for the "Czech question" were carried out quietly until the end of the war.