Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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English Translation

56 According to Article 5, on the basis of the objections raised by the Reich Protector, the so-called autonomous authorities "have had to withdraw not only from the declared laws, regulations and other legislation, but also from administrative measures and legal judgments." 12 then left in effect the law in force in Bohemia and Moravia if "it does not contradict the meaning of taking over protection of the German Empire." (104) At first, the protectorate standard showed certain elements of autonomy when, for example, it was reluctant to adopt the imperial racial rules, so the first legal standard issued in the territory of the Protectorate, which contained the Nuremberg Racial Criteria, was the decree of the Reich Protector on Jewish property of 21 June 1939(105), while in the Protectors' Regulations it became only in Government Decree No. 85/1942 Coll., which issue other regulations on Jews and Jewish half-breeds from March 7th. (106) This was done under a direct threat from the occupiers, including the intimidating execution of Prime Minister A. Elias and the threats of the Nazis to "hang every saboteur." (107) Over time, along with continued Germanization of the so-called. The autonomous bodies became more and more the direct expression of the occupying will ("from the command of the empire") and the difference between the Reich and the "automnomic" standard formation was wiped out. (108) Reichs and "automotive" standardization, particularly in the field of public law, led to the glajšaltování of society, its intimidation and bullying, so that it would be more manageable. Today, when the German legislature issues every day regulations which cannot be supported by the general belief of their necessity, because every citizen must cross them a hundred times a day if he wants to maintain his dignity or if he wishes to live....The producer must not donate or sell and the consumer must not accept or consume a single bite of food outside official rations and it is not enough for him, for everything to the last chunk in the ragged field, until the last plum in the garden is managed. No one may move without permission from the bombing of cities and often cannot be allowed to reach or stand on the ground. However, the rule of law, which flows from such orders and bans, which do not consider necessary, even if they consider it impossible in their absolute superiority, is not exceeded exceptionally, but usually, and is aware of that by the legislator, administrator and judge. Therefore, legal