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59 to punish and regardless of the rights earned (118) to remove the guilty from his place, position or post without having to comply with the prescribed procedures. (119) At the time, many Germans were surprised at why an absolute dictator had to take seemingly unnecessary authority in personnel matters, but, as it later showed, Hitler's goal was to legalize in advance the radical steps he had planned against "reactionaries, civil servants, lawyers and members of the officers' corps" - a preparation for the upcoming "total war." (120) In practice, among Hitler's regulations for the Protectorate, yields prevailed. These normative acts did not excel at the frequency or length or accuracy of the formulation. On the contrary, the typical of them was, aside from the often occurring multispoken ideologically colored preambles, a very economical and often even laconical form: they rarely exceeded several paragraphs. It was usually a framework regulation that required further development in the implementing provisions, and also an appropriate interpretation that would remove numerous uncertainties or contradictions. (121) The bizarre way in which the Imperial Normot formation, derived from the will of the leader relating to the territory of the Protectorate, was sometimes carried out shows, for example, the introduction of racial principle into marriage law. As described by V. Greasy, on 4. On April 1940, Martin Bormann , who was the liaison between Hitler and the party's chancellor , the Interior Minister in Berlin , informed him that "the official officials who had sexual relations with Polish or Czech women should be released from the state service immediately and without pension. (122) The force that put the legislative machine into operation was apparently Hitler's sudden outrage caused by perhaps scandalous reports from Poland or the Protectorate. Regardless of the informality of the order, the legislative experts of the Ministry of the Interior immediately proposed the text of the relevant regulations. In their zeal, they raised the threat of release to official officials in the broadest sense, including soldiers, SS and, of course, all party members. However, this was too much, and the whole matter was raised by party discussions, including the possibility of the involvement of party courts. (123) In the meantime, Hitler has already expressed himself in favour of assimilation and new in connection with the Czech question.