English Translation

44 The ripening of the conditions for administrative reform The double-cooled system for which the combination of protectorate, autonomous and purely anecdotal elements was distinct from the majority of the Nazis' previously used occupation regimes in other parts of Europe, as its establishment reflected the initial foreign political considerations of the nazis, but the taxation of this dualism was often an inefficient exercise of public power, resulting from the complex institutional arrangement, intersecting competences and also the personal cleverness of its carriers. The occupation administration deviated from the principle of subsidiarity originally set out and handled an agenda that could also be defended by the autonomous authorities. The bureaucracy of the protectorate administration then contrasted with the lack of additional administrative forces of the Nazis for the newly occupied territories, while there was no doubt that the occupying apparatus was unnecessarily oversized and not powerful. After the collapse of France in June 1940, when the Nazi vision of the new order began to be fulfilled in Europe, some Nazis said the protectorate status survived and should be abolished, but there were contradictions about the new arrangement. It was, on the one hand, Berlin's efforts to further strengthen control of the areas and to subject the Protectorate to the direct jurisdiction of the Empire (57), against which the local interests of the Nazis were acting, who on the other hand wanted to strengthen their position in the territory of the Protectors' Office at the expense of the Centre. The cancellation of the Protectorate and its connection with Sudetento and the creation of the new County of Bohemia (Gau) had numerous supporters with the Sudetian Germans, when it turned out that this special administrative territory, which Sudety had created for the first time in history, proved to be invincible when the German-Czech ethnic border had crossed most sections geographically, transportly and economically unified units. (58) The defender also had the division of the Protectorate and the connection of the larger part of Moravia to the County of the Lower Danube (Niederdonau). (59) It is ironic that this confirmed the accuracy of the traditional clinging of the Czechs to the natural integrity of their historical countries.