Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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English Translation

22 results of three defining moments: preparation of the final solution of the Czech problem, suppression of resistance movement and ensuring smooth operation of the economy. As a major priority, which must not be jeopardized by what must happen in the present, he has raised the demand that this space be once finally inhabited by the Germans, because it is the heart of the empire and the Czechs have nothing to look for here after all. According to Heydrich, the Germanisation of the countries of Bohemia and Moravia requires "to proceed completely soberly and start with the things that can be done shrouded today in order to get an overview of what of the people in this space is immaculate.....This means that we must find the opportunity to touch once all the population on a national and racial level. Whether I have to get a picture of the entire nation and then I can say so and so the population... these are...people who are racially good and well-meaning, we can mute them." (29) Racial criteria, as one of the assumptions of the Germanization of a part of the population of the Protectorate, have put the degenerate mechanisms of racial scrutiny into operation, which should have led to their destruction in the most uncomfortable cases, just as it has become a Jewish population. The insidiousness of these methods was that they were carried out systematically, under strict cover under the mantle of everyday life. They were accused of medical examinations of the population - school youth, police officers, troops, civil servants, etc., X-rays in the framework of health prevention against tuberculosis, photos on identity cards etc. The "racial inventory" was organized and evaluated by the Reichs racial and settlement "specialists."After the imperial model, the so-called "cards to farmyards" were established, capturing the racial composition of managing persons, property conditions, etc. At the same time, in the selected territory of Bohemia and Moravia, the model economy of the SS was created and along with the collections of dozens of settlements under the pretext of building military spaces and shooting range to predict future German settlements.