English Translation

The 30 systems of the Reich administration and justice, which pushed the autonomous authorities, as well as the extensive penetration of internal German law into the Protectorate's rule of law, narrowed the scope of the autonomy, as the protector gradually assumed direct control of other and other areas of public life. According to the decree of 16 March 1939, this was only to be defence and foreign affairs. Moreover, by the summer of 1941, there were twenty-four other areas: political police, citizenship, Jewish affairs, work placement, foreign trade, broadcasting, film industry, fuel management and others. (5) The reduction of the autonomous sphere culminated in its practical degradation as a result of the implementation of Heydrich's administrative reform. At the same time, it changed its character: national autonomy became autonomous under the authority of K.H. Frank. The establishment of the Protectorate did not immediately affect the structure of the lower components of the administrative system, i.e. the administration of the local, district and municipal authorities. However, the existing principles of their activities and the mechanism of relations between its components, especially in a horizontal plane, began to change rapidly. The programme's aim was to weaken and then completely demolish elected representatives, whose work was gradually transferred to the bureaucratic component of the relevant level. At the same time, this administration was under control and finally the immediate management of the Reichs Administration. (6) 2.1.1 The Military Occupational Administration - from 15 March to 15 April 1939 The first day of the occupation, according to pre-prepared and in practice, was established in the occupied areas of the so-called military administration (Militärverwaltung) during the recent annexation of the Czech border and the tested scenario. This was done on the basis of Hitler's order, by which all the executive power in the newly acquired areas was entrusted for one month to the commander in chief of the intervening forces of General von Brauchitsch, who then transferred it to his subordinates. In Bohemia she was taken over by the commander of the 3rd army group of Gen Johannes A. Blaskowitz, in Moravia then commander of 5. army group Gen. Wilhelm List. The heads of the civil administration were appointed Reichs