English Translation

211 the worst. In particular, the Nazis went cruelly towards Jews who, for the slightest offense, could be a mission to exterminating concentration camps. However, even that was not enough, if their interests were threatened, Nazis did not follow their own laws, however cruel, and proceeded to direct criminal violence, "lawful injustice" became only injustice. Whether it was the bloody suppression of student protests in 1939, the police production of so-called martial courts, the corpses of death for "crimes" which did not exist under German law, such as "approval of assassination" or violation of "focused login duty," unprecedented and frightening executions of entire families, the extermination of Lidice and Liežák, the massacres of civilians during the May Uprising... "The killing became a vicious circle at the end of which there were piles of broken and mutilated corpses every day, but there was no specific culprit. Whoever decided did not kill. Who killed did not decide. The trial was based on a virtual martial court" describes Vojtěch Kyncl. (7) What crippled most of the Czech nation was the devilish mixture of everyday life and everyday threats. No one was certain that it would not be him who would be the victim of Nazi repression tomorrow. ©The Nazi moves, including a wide range of methods ranging from promotional action to the use of pure violence, were a pragmatic and masterfully managed mixture of the application of power approaches, maneuvering and tacticalization, used for a single purpose: the gradual destruction of the political, economic and cultural autonomy of the Czech nation. The link between pragmatism and ruthlessness was the main reason why the Nazis mostly achieved the goals that they had assumed.©, writes Pavel Maršálek. (8) Thus, if some especially foreign authors notice the mass participation of the Czech population in events organized as a sign of loyalty with the empire, such as the tryzna za R. Heydrich, organized on 2 June 1942 at Old Town Square in Prague (9), does not say anything about people's thinking as much as about the enormous psychological and physical terror they were exposed to. The fact that law was important to the Nazis and, in many ways, an irreplaceable tool for their expansion, but without which they could do without, if necessary, not only shows repeated periods of intense terror, but also, for example,