Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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251 374. Already 28.10. 1943 the Ministry of Education issued a regulation in which it requested the submission by 15.11. 1943 of the Technical Emergency Assistance Command in the Protectorate of the names lists of pupils of relevant secondary schools, who have not yet been deployed within the TN in the Reich. See Zdeněka Kokošková, Jaroslav Pažout, Monika Sedláková: They worked for the Third Reich, (edd.), Scriptorium 2011, note 3, p.251. 375. See Zdeněka Kokošková, Jaroslav Pažout, Monika Sedláková: They worked for the Third Reich, (edd.), Scriptorium 2011, Note 2, p.323-324. 376. Protectorate members were sent to the realm in October and November 1942 within the framework of the "normal work deployment of labor authorities. At their first assignment in the military training ground in Baumholder, they were divided into companies in which members of various construction professions worked alongside auxiliary workers. The members of the work battalions were entitled to free accommodation and for their work they received a regular tariff wage, which was transferred to a bank account with the exception of allowance. However, their deployment was among the most demanding. During the removal of debris from the raids and the construction of emergency dwellings, accidents and even deaths often occurred. Usually, they had to endure all day with only half a loaf of bread and a piece of salami, as they received a hot meal (mostly eintopf) until the evening. See Zdeněka Kokošková, Jaroslav Pažout, Monika Sedláková : Worked for the Third Reich, (edd.), Scriptorium 2011, Historical Introduction by Stanislav Kokočka str. 21; doc. no.59 and further note 2, str.183-184. 377. See Zdeňka Kokokoškova, Jaroslav Pačout, monika Seláková: They worked for the third Reich (ed.), Scriptorium 2011, note 2 str.183-184. 378. See Zdeněka Kokošková, Jaroslav Pažout, Monika Sedláková : Worked for the Third Reich, (edd), Scriptorium 2011, Historical Introduction by Stanislav Koko ška, p. 21-22, doc. no. 38, 67,75, 77, 78, 88, 92, 94 and 119, further note 1, p. 268. 379. See Mark Spoerer: Forced work under the hook cross, Argo 2005, p. 15-17. 380. In February 1943, state secretary at the Reich Protector K.H.Frank turned on the legal status of Czech workers to the imperial leader of the SS and head of German police H. Himmler, chief office of NSDAP M. Bormann and Reich Head of the German Labour Front R.Ley. In letters to M. Bomann and H. The Himmlers of 10.2.1943 pointed to undesirable different approaches to the workers from the Protectorate, when in some cases they received vouchers for clothing and food such as Germans, in others as workers from east. Cit. in : Zdeněka Kokošková, Jaroslav Pažout, Monika Sedláková: They worked for the Third Reich, (edd.), Scriptorium 2011, Note 1, p. 218- 219. 381. See Mark Spoerer: Forced work under the hook cross, Argo 2005, p. 17. 382. Anatomy of the occupation policy of Hitler Germany in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, (eds.) Miroslav Kárný, Jaroslava Metolová, Dagmar Moravcová in: Proceedings on the issue of the history of imperialism, St. in: Zdeněka Kokošková, Jaroslav Pažout, Monika Sedláková: They worked for the Third Reich, (edd.), Scriptorium 2011, Historical Introduction by Stanislav Kokočka, p. 18.