English Translation

35 finance, as well as supervision of transport, mail and communications), but also the management and supervision of autonomous bodies, or, if necessary, also the conduct for them. (18) The two-wheel system of public authorities should have been preserved in the Protectorate according to the Nazi plans until the time when the conditions for the final Germanisation of this space were created. (19) The military occupation administration lasted until midnight 15. April 1939, when the executive power entrusted so far to the army from part to the Reich Protector, partly again to the Czech authorities. Its official end occurred on April 16, 1939 at 9 o'clock by withdrawal of the imperial war pledge from the mast in Hradčany. (20) The measures of the military occupation administration measures of military occupation management affected public life, operation of administration and economy. In terms of their purpose, they can be divided into several groups. Pavel Maršálek, for example, divides the measures taken into pacification, stabilization, unification, looting.(21) First of all, these measures were pacifying or repressive measures. The mayors were responsible for compliance with the regulations. Crimes and crimes against public security, military and its equipment and against German military and civilian authorities' orders are "inconspicuously prosecuted and punished as strictly as possible." (22) It was also about confiscating important file material of the Czech authorities, tightening the press censorship, introducing a pass regime at the border (23), as well as airlocks over the whole protectorate (24) and steps towards disarmament and gradual liquidation of the former Czechoslovak Republic. The above measures were supplemented by the first wave of preventive arrests of potential enemies of the new order called the Action Gitter. The Gestapo and the army did not participate in the opening of the event and left its execution to the Czechs. Since no names were available, local authorities were often embarrassed by whom they were supposed to provide. The gendarmes usually made decisions after consultation with the mayor and members of the municipal council.