Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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243 289. Dr. J.Hoffmann's Contemporary Commentary on the Government Regulation, NZN 1942, p. 144. 290. See in more detail Helena Petrův, Legal Status of Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1941), SEFER Publishing House, Institute of Terezín Initiative, page 131-140. 291. J Hoffmann, Jewish Question, NSN 1942, page.138. 292. Tomáš Kára: Protectorates Legislation, Diploma Work FP-ZČU, 2000, p. 25-26. 293. In essence, the intention of the envoyed Nazis in the formation of the Protectorate was realized when, on March 25, 1939, at a lecture for the State Secretary of the Reichs' Ministries Stuckart explained that the Jews should be excluded from the public life of the protectorate through the rule of the Protectorate. ....Říšský protector will recommend to the government in Prague to implement the necessary measures.© Recording of the conference with Stuckart, 25 March 1939, AA, T-120, 257, 195988 and T- 120, 1505, D 632806-07, NA. Cit in : Vojtěch Mastný, Protectorate and fate of the Czech resistance, EUROLEX BOHEMIA s.r.o. , Prague 2003, p. 57. In addition Miroslav Kárný, Jaroslava Milotová (edd.) Anatomy of the occupation policy of Hitler Germany in the Czech Republic and Moravia Protectorate. Documentation from the period of Reich Protector Konstantin von Neurath, Prague 1987, p. 13n. 294. The immediate pressure on high protectorate officials, including ministers, with the threat of physical liquidation is also witnessed by K.H.Frank, who declared in front of officials of his ministry on September 29, 1943: "I must be prepared every hour and able to prepare myself as soon as the German situation would require disarming the Czech police battalions and government troops or arrest the leader of the Youth Kuratorium or Minister X, with whom I was loyally conversing or dining with a few moments ago.' In September 1944, SD was then mentioned to Prime Minister Krejčí in one of the reports. Frank allegedly urged him to call the members of the government and order them to warn all officials of illegal conduct and to call on them to full work. Any attempt to sabotage or even sabotaging acts in the offices will be drastically punished. He himself will not hesitate to give the order to condemn the perpetrator directly in the appropriate office and leave him hanging for 48 hours on the spot, all in the eyes.© René Küpper: FRANK - Political Biography of the Sudeten German National Sociality, ARGO 2012, p. 193. 295. Hannah Arendtová , Eichmann in Jerusalem, Report on the Banality of Evil, Prague 1995, p.384. Cit in: Helena Petrův, Legal status of Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1941), SEFER Institute of Terezín Initiatives, 2000, str.145. 296. Zdenka Kokošková, Jaroslav Pažout, Monika Sedláková: They worked for the Third Reich, (edd), Scriptorium 2011, p. 13. 297. Compare Jiří Chyský: Forced work and its issues with regard to the nature of labour law, Prague 1962, p. 11 et seq. Cit. in: Jaroslav Houser, Forced labour and occupation law, Legally Historical study 13, Prague 1967, Academia, page 158. 298. Václav Král: Questions of Economic and Social Development in the Czech Lands and the Years 1938-1945. Part III, Prague, p. 93 et seq.