English Translation

37 and so he pays for the goose 600 K, depicting the colorfulness of the first days of the occupation in his chronicle Mrázek z Libochovice. (33) The measures imposed by the Protectorate immediately after the occupation testify to the general need for hard cash. The special supervisory office of the Reichské banka in Prague decided on the allocation of foreign currency quotas for import of raw materials in particular and preferred companies working on German contracts. Berlin also immediately showed interest in Czechoslovak gold reserves. The Reichské banka sent a special representative to Prague, who had already rushed on 15 March 1939 along with advanced army colonies. With the support of military authorities forced the governors of the National Bank of Czechoslovakia to issue gold treasure, stored in the safes of the Bank of England. The operation took place through the Bank for International Salaries in Basel and was successful "it was a sad result of the work of the blinded appeasement." Despite the British financial embargo on Czech assets and despite the outrage in the House of Commons, London's officials agreed to send 809 984 ounces of gold to Germany in June. (34) A part of the looting policy was the beginning of the arsonization of Jewish property. On the first day of the occupation, for example, representatives of Dresdner Bank and Deutsche Bank, who had close relations with the Nazi party, removed their Jewish members from the board of directors of the two largest German banks in Prague. Businesses that confiscated the Gestapo from Jews and emigrants were entrusted to German companies or individual Nazi managers. (35) 2.1.2 The period from 15 April 1939 to the end of 1940 (autonomous) standardizing authority of the protectorate bodies derived from the recipated constitutional law No. 330 Coll. of 15.12.1938 on extraordinary power of ordering, as an aspect of continuity with the so-called II. Republic of the Run. the Neurah period of the Protectorate, which followed the completed military administration, further profiling of the two-track