Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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English Translation

39 of the facts, however, the Protectorate President needed the approval of the Reich Protector in particular for all major acts. Among the Protectorate institutions, its position in both these spheres has been crucial since the beginning and has gradually strengthened so much that this body has become some kind of momentum centre for all legislation and administration. (38) All the more important measures were taken by the government in the congregation and its members were bound by the college's decision. In the absence of any adjustment to this question in Hitler's return on the Protectorate, she was also responsible for the Reich's recycling company, to which she even had to submit protocols from her meetings. (39) By deriving the legislative authority of the state president and the protectorate government from Act No. 330/1938 Coll. a certain formal mark of continuity can be found with the development before 15 March 1939, but this ceased to apply after the extension of the legislative law to the autonomous authorities on the basis of the Reich Protector's regulation of 12.12.1940 (see below). When we talk about the broad legislative powers of the highest authorities of the autonomous public administration, it is always given that it was only a shadow of the real power of the Reich Protector. The Protector's office has grown into the form of "Leviathan" that is described by V.Mastný, who barely fit into the huge Cernín Palace (40), divided into departments, groups and reports that were similar ministries. (41) Even despite the officially declared unity of the country, the protector in Brno maintained a special exhibition to satisfy the ambitions of the Moravian Nazis. (42) In passing the above-mentioned regulation on legislative law in the Protectorate of 7. In June 1939, which significantly highlighted the role of the PRC in the field of standardisation (43), its position, based only on the framework provisions of Hitler's decree on the protectorate, was strengthened within less than half a year by the issuance of two important regulations. March 1939, implementing the Protectorate Statute, which established that the Reich Protector is the only representative of the leader and Reich Chancellor and Remperor in the protectorate.