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continued in the background for practically the entire time that the Protectorate
existed. In particular this involved the blatant Germanization of the Protectorate's 
population, i.e. enforcing the German language at all levels of life, abolishing 
universities and restricting secondary education, censorship of cultural life, the 
misinterpretation of Czech history with the emphasis on the protective role played 
by the German Empire, sending whole years of young people to Germany to do 
forced labour and, most tragically of all, the deliberate extermination of the Czech 
intelligentsia. The only possible guarantee that nothing similar will ever happen 
again Europe is the constant cultivation of a free and democratic environment and 
remembering the tragic past and the reasons for it, because if a person does not 
know his past he is doomed to repeat its mistakes.
Key words: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Germanisation, 
categorisation of the population, racial laws, persecution of the Jews, forced 
labour, economic exploitation, Nazi repression, martial law.  
Abstract: The thesis deals with the role of the law in the Protectorate of 
Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1945) during its economic exploitation, 
Germanisation and categorisation of the population as a prerequisite for an end 
solution to the so-called Jewish and Czech question in the plans of the Nazis. It 
focuses on forming this “law of lawfulness”, its content and enforceability and 
comes to the conclusion that rule-making at that time played an important, above 
all, organisation-related role in implementing occupation order, however if this 
was an obstacle to rapid and radical solutions, it became a burden which the Nazis 
replaced with injustices in the form of special treatment (Sonderbehandlung) of 
martial law, executions and deportation to concentration camps.  An example of 
the instrumental abuse of the law on behalf of the Nazis to pursue their expansion 
plans leads us to the general conclusion that to safeguard against abusing the law 
to control others cannot rely on the law alone, but also requires a democratically 
functioning society and a conscious historical memory of nations.