Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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English Translation

Official relations may be conducted only with the Reich Protector, only exceptionally in the event of a risk of delay or for other urgent reasons, direct contact with his subordinates was permitted provided that he is informed at the same time. This Regulation significantly strengthened the post-importation position in relation to the autonomous authorities of the Protectorate, since it expressly granted it the right to supervise the entire autonomous administration. In addition, a preliminary examination of the majority of the normative acts was also introduced if the individual acts issued by the autonomous authorities to be carried out by the Authority so far. 5 Hitler's March yield is binding on the authorities of the Protectorate and that the decompositions given to him do not have suspensive effect. In addition, the Reich's reel was also entrusted with considerable police competence in one of the final articles of this Regulation. The Reich's leader of the SS and the head of the German police together with him) could now take the administrative measures necessary to maintain security and order in the Protectorate also outside the limits otherwise set for it. In practice, it meant that he was entitled to issue police regulations without any restrictions © whether there was a situation justifying the need for their adoption, namely, he decided on his own free discretion. He did not even have to respect the applicable law. He could even transfer his authorization, absolutely arbitraryly, because there was not a designated authority to which he could proceed. If Himmler or the Main Office of Reich Security (RSHA) had issued a different order from the protector, he should have filled Himmlar and RSHA respectively. This meant that the head of the security service and the security police were not subordinate to the Reich's reeling, but were assigned. Therefore, the protector's instructions were rather political in nature and in practice the occupying administration preferred the orders of RSHA. The security apparatus in the Protectorate was in this way secured a really independent position within the entire occupation administration. His activities were almost exclusively managed by Berlin, its organization, personnel composition and financing had virtually no influence on the Reich Protector. (49)