Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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(581) On June 15, 18-year-old Blazena Fenclová, on her way to the barracks in Lobz, was still screaming: "Mom, dear mom, I did nothing, I am innocent." After reading the verdict, she pleaded for mercy, only the last few seconds before she died, she fell into a seemingly calm lethargy. (582) It happened that the victims did not even know that they were going to die and it was quite evident that they had never stood before any "sane court." These documented cases then, after the war, convicted the executioners of having to be aware of the faking of court proceedings and of the utter insanity that was also out of the Nazis' declared rules. Such a case was also the shooting of a young woman at the execution site in Tábor, as one of the actors of the war testified about the war. In the men's carriage, other victims were brought to the barracks yard, among them a young lady. After the tarpaulin and the climbing on the pavement, she asked in an uncertain voice what was actually going on. The present officer replied that she would be photographed. The woman then began to comb her hair, look in the pocket mirror and prepare herself, as the women did before photography. She had free hands, for she had been removed from the handcuffs. Nor did she notice that other execution orders were silently said so that the victims could not register them, for there was a potential danger of resistance and hysterical scenes. Although the victims' natural reactions could have been violently broken without any difficulty, the burden for the firing squad would have been disproportionately high. In the execution of the witness-police officer, the victims were brought face-to-face to the wall of the garage, but because they spoke to each other, they were ordered to lay face to face. The woman was not yet ready with her preparation from the outside, when the eye patch was attached to her and immediately after she was shot. © The woman had no idea what would actually happen to her, one of the law enforcement officers testified after the war. It was the usual tactic of the Gestapo camp to keep the victims calm until the last moment. (583) During the executions, a doctor was also to be present, who examined the death of the shots. It happened quite often, twice or three times during each execution, that he had to order a blow out of grace. To this he was assigned either an officer-in-waiting officer, or she was executed by a security police member. One of its members testified about the case when the regulation