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249 in Prague, the Institute for Contemporary History of the CAS and the Office for Victims of the Nazism of the Czech German Future Fund. Red. Stanislav Kokoška-Zdenka Koko šková. Prague 2004. Cit. in: Jan Gebhart, Jan Kuklík : The Great History of Czech Crowns, Paseka, Prague, Litomyšl, Volume XV.b, p. 202. 354. See Zdeněka Kokošková, Jaroslav Pažout, Monika Sedláková: They worked for the Third Reich, (edd.), Scriptorium 2011, Note 1-5, p.211-212. 355. Vl. nař. č. 177/1944 Coll. on the authorisation of ministers and the head of the Land Office for Bohemia and Moravia for extraordinary measures to implement the total war effort of 22 August; Sb. z. a n., str. 841-842. 356. vl. n. 144/1944 Coll. on the registration obligations of men and women who have abandoned their existing employment since July 8th; Sb.z. a n., p. 649-650. 357. See Mark Spoerer: Forced work under the hook cross, Argo 2005, p. 42. 358. SÚA, Fund MHP, čj AI-5443. kart. 367. Cit. in: Jaroslav Houser, Forced Work and Occupant Law, Legally Historical Studies 13, Prague 1967, Academia, pp. 184. 359. The proceeds of A.Hitler from 2.9.1943 became the head of the OT became the Reich Minister for Armament and War Production A.Speer, who was directly subordinate to the leaders. The OT took over the construction work for the ground troops and the management of the air and navy buildings, and only participated in the constructions of the SS. At the beginning of the war it gained labour in the Protectorate by voluntary recruitment through its own recruiters. In January 1942, F.Todt, from the position of Reich Minister for Armed Forces and Ammo, turned to the representative Reich Protector R.Heydrich with the request and provision of 4000 Czech workers for the construction of the synthetic gasoline plant in Záluží u Mostu, thus opening the way for the systematic acquisition of workers in the Protectorate. Many Czech workers made OT through German construction companies, therefore the number of protectorate members of this organization cannot be clearly identified. According to the decree of the supreme command of the Wehrmacht (Oberkommando der Wehramacht-OKW), they deserved the same material security as the Germans, but this was bought out by strict working discipline and often also by deployment in harsh climatic conditions. See Zdeněka Kokošková, Jaroslav Pažout, Monika Sedláková: They worked for the Third Reich, (edd.), Scriptorium 2011, note 2, p. 184. 360. RGBl. I/1938, p.1441-1442. 361. RGBI. I/1939, p. 989. 362. Interview with František Jílek from Jindřichův Hradec, year 1924, as part of the international documentation of memorials of slave and forced labour in the National Socialist Germany for the Berlin Foundation "Reminder, Responsibility and Future" (Stiftung "Erinnerung, Verantworth und Zukunft," Funds "Ernnerung und Zukunft", Markgrafenstrasse 12-14, D 10969 Berlin, Institute of History and Biography at the Fart University of Hagen (FernUniversität, Gesamtochschule in Hagen, "Deutsches Gedächtnis", Institut für Geschichte und Biografie", Liebigstrasse 11, D-58511 Lüdenscheild) and Live Memory o.p.s., Na Poříčí 12, 110 00 Praha 1, year 2005.