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34 increased or reduced prices, prevented excessive purchases, for the first three days should have stopped the operation of passenger cars except for doctors, etc.(15) OLR acted in the matters of German citizens, represented the protector in the areas they had in their direct jurisdiction, and mainly supervised local Czech authorities. OLR was considered local rulers among savages. The District Governors were obliged to submit to the Oberlandrats for prior approval all regulations, decrees, circulars and essential measures intended for the lower authorities. Also, the district authorities' orders could not be implemented until they received the approval of the respective Oberlandrate. The Oberlandrát Office carried out censorship over all the printed matter in its territory and the activities of cultural and other associations. The Oberlandrati also cooperated with the NSDAP organisations, the police administration, i.e. with the Gestapo, the security service and they were humiliatedly assigned units of German law enforcement. (16) After the end of the civil occupation administration, the oblandrats were subject to the Reich's recycling and since 1943 to the German State Minister in the Protectorate. The relative separation of the lower components of the autonomous and German administration was eliminated in the second phase of Heydrich's administrative reform in June 1942. May 1942 simplified the administrative system by transferring part of the Oberlandrats' agenda and part of Reich Protector's agenda to the Germanized Autonomous Authorities, which began to execute it from the Order of the Empire (im Auffrage des Reichs). (17) From an institutional point of view, the foundations of the two-track system of public authorities in the Protectorate were laid during the military occupation administration, which in the future significantly distinguished it from all other Nazi occupation regimes. In addition to the system of autonomous bodies, which actually included an almost unchanged existing organisation of state administration and self-government, there was built a system of Reich authorities, with a basic territorial unit of Oberlandrats. At the same time, in this transitional period, the Reichs will be entrusted not only with the provision of things for which this will be inevitable for Germans for reasons of political or state law (it should be especially for the affairs of protectorate Germans, the administration of foreign, military protection, more part of the internal security agenda, and