Protektorát Čechy a Morava: právo nástroj nacistické expanze Page 25 · 25 of 289
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion
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25 autonomous protectorate bodies have become essentially useless since the Nazis have already realized their intentions from within. This effectively ended administrative dualism in the Protectorate. As experts of local conditions, the Germans, especially from Sudeten, had a large share in the Nazi domination of the autonomous authorities from the inside, which often encouraged the occupations to advance more radically towards the Czech population. In this form, the protectorate was no longer significantly different from other occupied territories, which the empire managed directly. 1.5 The Protectorate as a legal injustice" The promotion of the interests of the Nazis in the norm did not always mean the strictly persequencing content of these standards, even the contrary, some regulations could in themselves be assessed as positive, such as control of price increases and on the working front improving the material conditions of workers and peasants, employment etc. (35) However, this was not just about the economic functioning of the economy, but about the long-term strategy of the division of the conquered nation and weakening its resistance.The prospect was to neutralize the material needs of the Czechs and thus to facilitate politically later indoctrination of those who were chosen for the process of assimilation (Umvolkung). In their occupation policy, the Nazis did not just limit themselves to the headless use of terror to maintain their dominion, but the repertoire of their approaches included other methods such as persuasion, intimidation, tactication and, finally, from the beginning of 1942, an open bet on collaboration. Heydrich "finalized political persecution and began to run over Czech workers and peasants.", writes his British biographer Ch. Wighton. (36) The Germans in the Protectorate did not practice a policy of total degradation, such as in occupied parts of the Soviet Union or Poland, with the exception of the extermination of Jewish and Gypsy ethnicities.