Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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210 rights have often been preceded by later sharpening legislation by exceeding pre-several competence regulations of the labour offices and the practice of the work force. The fact that the autonomous bodies, which were in fact just the continuation of the Czech-Slovak authorities, adapted quite quickly to new conditions, was also due in many respects to the link between the Egyptian political and social orientation of the country, including the growing anti-Semitism, authoritarianism and close cooperation with Germany, partly as an expression of hopelessness and despair after Munich's treachery, because if we cannot sing with angels, we will wail with wolves." (5) At the same time, it must be seen that every Czech in the government, ministry official, self-government officer, etc. has been threatened by a real threat that even for a hint of sabotage of the tasks set by the Nazis will be cruelly punished. As K.H.Frank threatened, every attempt to sabotages will not hesitate to give the order to condemn the perpetrator directly in office and leave him hanging in place for 48 hours, in plain sight to all. (6) Although official political representation initially tried to resist the Nazis as far as possible, it gradually got into defensive with the increase in German war achievements and the Protectorate did not appear as an arrangement for this time, as was discussed with the period of humor. After Heydrich's bloody cleansing, President Hacha and the Protectorate government were in a state of rapid decay and completely in a Nazi lift. Neither the vast number of legal standards nor the reformed public administration could in itself put the protectorate fully into the service of the Nazis, not all the threats of repression and its thoughtful dosing. The reason for repression was by far not only the capital crimes in the form of resistance activity, sabotage, espionage, treason, treachery, violation of racial laws and martial law of virtually anything, but also the transgressions against countless obligations arising from public regulations in the field of maintenance, supply and price, as well as in ensuring the stability of wages and salaries and work morals, which were sanctioned in administrative punishment by fines, imprisonment or placement in an educational work camp, unless, of course, the Nazi repressive forces reserved this offense for their own discussion under German criminal law, which was foretold only