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232 173. Decree of 20.7. 1939 on the application of German law to German members in the Protectorate © RGBl. I/1939, p. 1309; NZN 1939, p . 657. Karel Malý et al.: History of Czech and Czechoslovak Law until 1945, Linde Praha a.s.- Law and economic publishing house and bookstore B.Hořínková, etc. Tuláček, Prague 1999, p.387. 174. By the end of September 1939, less than 188 000 inhabitants of the Protectorate applied for German citizenship. In Brno, according to estimates, the entire sixth of the estimated German population did not register until March 1940, in Zlin, which had relatively little, was one third of the German population. We must say that in this regard /us/ ethnic Germans failed, one of the employees of the Office of the Reich Protector expressed himself. See Chad Bryant: Prague in black, Nazi government and Czech nationalism, ARGO 2012, p.57. 175.Vojtěch Mastný: Protectorate and fate of the Czech resistance, EUROLEX BOHEMIA s.r.o., Prague 2003, p. 133. 176. Chad Bryant : Prague in black, Nazi government and Czech nationalism, ARGO 2012, p. 77-78, see Detlef Brandes, Die Tschechen unter deutschem Protectorat, Besatzungspolitik, Kollabion und Widerstand im Protekotrat Böhmen und Mähren (1939-1945), München, Wien, 1969,1975, part 1, p. 160, Czech edition 1939-1945, Czech under German protectorate. Occupational Policy, Collaboration and Resistance, Prague 1999. 177. Vojtěch Mastný: Protectorate and fate of the Czech resistance, EUROLEX BOHEMIA s.r.o., Prague 2003, p. 136. In this connection V.Mastný refers to Stuckart's interrogation, U.S. v. Weizsäcker, Proceedings (English), p. 24558, CU. H. Petrův states that in the territory of the Protectorate lived not more than 250,000 Germans, Helena Petrům : Legal status of Jews in the Protectorship of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1941), SEFER publishing house, Institute of Terezín Initiative 2000, p. 34. According to Ch. Bryant it could have been more than 220,000 Germans; see Chad Bryants: Prague in black, Nazi government and Czech nationalism, ARGO 2012, p. 76. In the camp area only three quarters of registered Germans could speak German. In the cologne region there were only 60 percent of them. See Chad Bryant: Prague in black, Nazi government and Czech nationalism, ARGO 2012, p. 76; cf. Detlef Brandes, Die Tschechen unter deutschem Protectorat, Besatzungspolitik, Kollabion und Widerstand im Protectrat Böhmen und Mähren (1939-1945), München, Wien, 1969,1975, Volume 1, p.320 Note 1167. Czech edition 1939-1945, Czech under German protectorate. See Vojtěch Mastný: Protectorate and fate of the Czech resistance, EUROLEX BOHEMIA s.r.o., Prague 2003, p. 136. Furthermore, in the situational report SD from spring 1940 of the České Budějovický region, its agent states that among the new applicants for imperial citizenship he sees nothing but waste, and points out that many of them have Czech surnames and hardly speak German: