Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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57 care is not intended here to eliminate infringements, but only to limit as much as possible the intimidation of the population. That is why the legislature issues draconian regulations and the administration personifies unlimited rights over the freedom and life controlled, and judges are more strict than they are to be long-lived, describes the feelings of the inhabitants of the Protectorate E.Saturday and thus captures the intention of the occupiers formulated by Heydrich, namely "to push the Czechs always". "Bohemia, a Slavic man, can be very difficult to convince, always bend, never break it, and when you stop bending and let it go, it will rise up again, standing there again and again being an opponent. It follows from this that you must always push it to keep it down." (109) 2.2.1 Reichské normoformování Řídování oživot v protectorate - the standardization of the organs of the empire empowered to issue regulations for the whole empire 2.2.1.1 Regulation (Verordnung) and Decrees (Erlass) Leaders' Framework Regulation The most important normative acts regulating the very foundations of the state-law arrangement of the Protectorate were issued directly by Hitler, who in his person concentrated the leadership of the German nation and state (Führer und Reichskanzler)(110) and finally all power. According to Nazi law, the spirit of the nation (Volksgeist) and the soul of the race (Rassenseele), which is the source of all law, was lifted up to its highest fulfillment.(111) Therefore, his formal will was the law (der Wille des Führers ist Gesetz) and even his informal order was always preferred to the other applicable law. (112) The leader's will can be embodied always and everywhere. "She herself is not bound to any hierarchy, not even to the one she creates herself,