English Translation

284 Resume After the Munich Agreement crippled Czechoslovakia on September 30, 1938, it became completely defenceless against Hitler's aggressive plans. On March 14, 1939, the Slovak cast was created and the German troops occupied the remaining territory of Bohemia and Moravia. Hitler was the return of 16 March 1939 to establish the so-called Protectorate of Bohemian and Morava. The autonomous authorities, with regard to the response abroad and the soothing of the domestic scene, left some freedom, which was, however, increasingly restricted by the Nazis and practically ceased after Heydrich's reform of the public administration in 1942 and 1943. The fact that the Protectorate soon became an arms workshop and an occipital background for Hitler's conquest plans would not be conceivable without the universal threat of repression and its thoughtful dosing. It was a different form of one policy according to R.Heydrich's instructions: a short destructive one, which was to be followed by a constructive period, as it is easier to be fair and human after the necessary strict arrest. The reason for repression was by far not only the capital crimes in the form of resistance activity, sabotage, espionage, treason, treachery, violation of racial laws and martial law of virtually anything, but also the transgressions against countless obligations arising from public regulations in the field of maintenance, supply and price, as well as in ensuring the stability of wages and salaries and work morals which were sanctioned in administrative punishment by fines, imprisonment or placement in an educational work camp, unless, of course, the Nazi repressive forces reserved this offense for their own consideration, which was only the worst. In particular, the Nazis went cruelly towards Jews who could have been sent to an extermination concentration camp for the slightest offense. Although the final solution to the Czech question was intended to occur after the end of the conquest war, preparations for its resolution, including Heydrich's ordered racial inventory of the Czech population, continued quietly virtually throughout the existence of the Protectorate.