English Translation

29 for the performance of his office of trust of the Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor, or that members of the Protectorate's government are confirmed by the Reich Protector, i.e. by the highest representative of the imperial interests on the ground of the protectorate. If E. Hacha, as head of the protectionate, has marked the title of state president, cannot be found in Hitler's decree of support and can be considered only a concession from the German side. On the dependent position of Háchov nothing could change even the admission of such protection and honorary rights, which were usually received by the Heads of State. The fluctuation in the use of the term of the state-owned and the protectorate was removed in the circular of the Protectorate Ministry of the Interior dated 16 May 1940. (3) The Bureau of the Ministerial Council stated in it that the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia had expressed the wish not to use in official letters and decrees of service the designation "state" or "State" and that these markings were either, if possible, deleted or replaced by the marks "Protectorate," or "Protectorate." The designation of the state president for the head of the autonomous administration of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was not affected by this. The nation itself was virtually completely excluded from the influence on public governance. On March 1939, without new elections being announced, and also in a short period of time, the government was completely paralyzed by shutting down the representative corps and placing their officials from above. Hitler reserved a dominant position for the Empire's recycling industry in Bohemia and Moravia. He was directly subject to the leaders and received instructions from him. In his double position he was a virtually unlimited lord of the Protectorate. The highest Reich authorities, e.g. the Ministry, had no right to direct instructions against him. All Reich servants in the territory of the protectorate were subordinate to him. The position of the Reich Protector was, in addition to the decree of March 16, 1939, further regulated by imperial standards, which were often not published in the Protectors' Office. In particular, it is important that the Hitler Regulation of 7 June 1939, which was granted the authorisation to issue its own legislation and to amend or repeal autonomous legal standards, including those which arose during the period of the first and second Republics. ((4) By continuous intervention by the occupyers and by the construction of branched