English Translation

73 and only some of them were reprinted in the bilingual Journal of the Order of the Reich Protector or the Bulletin of the Decree of the State Minister, and more than once with considerable time lag. (166) The orientation of the Czech population in the regulations applicable to the Protectorate was to facilitate the monthly edition of the New Testaments and Regulations (NZN 1939-1945, Law bookstore and publishing house V. Linhart in Prague), which contained the relevant selection of standards published in the Reichske Kříšské Code, the Journal of the Reicsprotector Regulation respectively the German State Minister, the Collection of Laws and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Regulation, the Official List of the Protectors of Bohemian Republic and Morava and the Ministry of Justice Bulletin. Some of the regulations were printed with an accompanying word regarding the legislation adopted so far in the given material or by commentary. The regulations issued by the Reich authorities were published in German with Czech translation. In the context of the lack of clarity of the number of legislation relating to the Protectorate, it is worth noting that, on the contrary, the content of the legal standards, in particular the government's regulations, was mostly very precisely formulated and marked with a high legislative level, where the enforcement was not to be unnecessarily bound, did not hesitate to limit the legislator only to a general framework regulation (e.g. Government Regulation No 177/1944 Coll. on the authorisation of ministers and the head of the Land Office for Bohemia and Moravia for extraordinary measures for the implementation of total war deployment consisted of only three sentences, divided into two articles and two paragraphs), on the other hand, when setting various concessions or exceptions to individual duties, the legal standards were formulated very sophisticatedly and in detail in order to narrow as much as possible the scope for their "abuse." (The example is, for example, the definition of conditions of impunity for offences committed before the effectiveness of Government Regulation No. 404/1942 Coll. on ensuring the stability of wages and salaries and work morals laid down in this Regulation. See in more detail in the section on forced labour, p. 129-130.) At the same time, it should be seen that the pregnant formulation of legal standards helped the fact that they were not the result of complex political compromises, but by the words of K.H.Frank, "an integrated leadership of the Nazis.