English Translation

42 In addition to the standardizing and control powers that had the basis for the return of Hitler setting up a protectorate in the aforementioned regulations, the protector also obtained the power of decision-making, which over time proved to be of considerable use. (50) Only with the escalation of economic mobilisation in the first half of 1942, which was intended to enable the Nazis to retaliate for the defeat suffered in the battle of Moscow and which, like other territories of the empire, affected the protectorate, can we follow the gradual reduction in the importance of the Reich Protector when the management of the Protectorate has gradually shifted to Germanized autonomous bodies. In August 1943, Frank's German State Minister for Bohemia and Moravia practically held only protocol functions. 2.1.3 The period from 1941 to February 1942 - the normalizing power of the protectorate organs derived from the imperial authority At the end of 1940, significant changes occurred in the area of autonomous normoproduction. The state president's two-year mandate to issue decrees has passed, and the Reich Protector has not allowed the government's extraordinary ordering power to be extended autonomously. In addition, the possibility of any review of government regulations in administrative justice was excluded by the provisions that the legislation applicable to them should apply; secondary regulations could then be issued in the framework of government decrees; moreover, the legislative work of individual authorities was widely permitted against the previous condition, which was particularly relevant to ministries. At the same time, the regulations adopted by the government and the authorities could also detach the older regulations of the higher order. (52) In the sphere of internal administration, the Ministry of Interior, Land and District Offices were mainly active.