English Translation

209 This ambivalence did not apply everywhere. On the contrary, the clear, categorically built starting points for the other fates of the country in Hitler's decree should have become the division of people into privileged "competents of German nation" and "other inhabitants of Bohemia and Moravia" and the introduction of Nuremberg racial laws on the territory of the Protectorate only for Reich citizens, as a grim sign of other tragic events. Under the rules of this game, which were fulfilled in the shadow of the noose with German consistency, the burning question of how much the Czech Protectorate authorities themselves contributed to the construction of German order in Bohemia and Moravia shifts mainly into the moral plane, because even without their actions, the normalizing will could be called. The autonomous bodies were replaced virtually at any time by the will of the occupying power within the so-called two-track state administration, as it was anchored by Hitler's decree of March 16, 1939. It is fair to say that the Protectorate government for some time resisted taking over Nuremberg's racial laws in its standard creation, so the first in this regard had to be the order of the Reich Protector on Jewish property of 21 June 1939. ((1) However, this did not prevent the protectorate Government from having previously discharged the Aryan section into the retirement of an employee of the military administration and of longer serving Jewish origin (2) and had previously taken note of the shameful decision of the Bar Association in Prague of 15. March 1939, the first day of the occupation, the exclusion of non-Aryan lawyers from representation before the court, for which the Czech Bar Association apologized after 70 years in 2009. (3) The effective takeover of Nuremberg Racial Laws by the Protectorate Government took place by Government Decree No. 85/1942 Coll. about Jews and Jewish half-breeds from March 7, (4) and it was without question one of the most immoral legal creations of the Protectorate Government. The so-called autonomous bodies included the establishment of labor camps and the internment of Roma before their deportation to extermination camps. The Protectorate Government has also laid a legislative basis for a mass violation of the fundamental rights of the people of the protectorate, i.e. forced labour and especially their work in the realm. Even so, the cruel reality of forced labour has far surpassed the development of the occupying law.