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255 range from 400,000 to 600,000 people deployed into the empire, see Zdeněka Kokošková, Jaroslav Pažout, Monika Sedláková: They worked for the Third Reich, (edd.), Scriptorium 2011, Historical Introduction by Stanislav Kokoschka, p. 23. The highest number of Czechs deployed to work in the Reich should have been reached in September 1943 © 286 663 persons, a year later this number should have fallen to 276 340 people. According to Mark Spoer in the Empire, the total number of Czechs deployed in the empire is difficult to determine. Anecdoted Sudeten German areas have had high labour consumption, there is no evidence of any forced sending of someone from Czechs living here somewhere else to the realm. By the end of March 1945, approximately 420 000 people were sent from the Protectorate to the empire, but Spoerer states, among other things, that there was undoubtedly a double registration, for example when a Czech man returned home after the expiry of his employment contract and a few months later he could be recruited again to Germany or was sent there. For the numbers recruited from the Protectorate and from most other occupied countries, it should be assumed that due to the multiple registration, this is the upper limit of the actual value. Leopold Chmela : Die wirtschaftliche Besetzung der Tsechoslawakei, Munich 1966, p.57,a Miroslav Kárný : Das SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungshauptamt. Verwalter der KZ-Haftlingsarbeitskrafte und Zentrale des SS-Wirtschalftskonzerns, in: Hamburger Stiftung zur Fordrun von Wissenschaft und Kultur (edd.), ©Deutsche Wirtschaft. Zwangsarbeit von KZ -Haftlingsen fur Industrie und Behoren, Hamburg 1991, s.153-169. Cit. in: Mark Spoer : Forced work under the hook cross, Argo 2005, p. 42, p. 10, p. 85. 400. See e.g. Jan Čvančara : Heydrich, Gallery, Prague 2002, p. 318. 401. Three more persons were added to these executions a day later, two police officers and musicians who got into conflict with the Sudeten Nazi fanatic who handed them over to the SS. See Jan B.Uhlíř: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in paintings, OTTO'S NAKETELITY, 2008, p. 432; Jan Gebhart-Jan Kuklík :The great history of the countries of the Crown of Czech St. XV. and, Paseka, Prague, Litomyšl, 2007, p. 341 an. 402. The first 33 students were released already on 19 December 1939. Another 180 got Hácha home in exchange for a congratulated telegram for Hitler's birthday, which was propagandistically used in April 1940. Most were released after the end of the so-called martial law in January 1942. The last student returned on 11th March 1943. See Jan B. Uhlíř : Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in paintings, OTTOVO COSTELS, 2008, p. 366. 403. The decree of the Reich Protector Neurath of November 17, 1939 states: "Although it has been seriously warned again, a group of Czech intellectuals, in cooperation with emigrant circles abroad, have been trying to disturb peace and order in the Protectorate Böhmen und Mähren since some time. While these circles were torn down in the days of October 28th and November 15th to violent acts against individual Germans, the Czech universities were for three years