English Translation

77 of these criteria acquired the Protectorate jurisdiction, followed in the home law (§2). In doubt about the protectorate privilege was decided by the district bebo of the Land. Each protectorates member was entitled to be issued a certificate of protectoritarian jurisdiction on an official form. There were therefore three categories of population of the Protectorate: German nationals, or Reich citizens, protectorate members and Jews and Romani people, with reich racial regulations applied to those Jews who were German nationals. (172) German nationals as well as Roman citizens were subject to the Reichs authorities and exclusive jurisdiction of German courts, including in civil disputes with protectorate members. Their affairs were handled locally by the Oberlandrats and at the next level by the Protector's Office. The legal conditions of German citizens were governed in the territory of the Protectorate according to the legal standards applicable to the territory where they came from (i.e. according to German, Austrian and Sudeten). Persons who acquired imperial citizenship in connection with the occupation of Czech countries, i. e. persons resident here, were governed by the Czechoslovak. legal standards adopted for Sudety or Reich regulations, issued with effect also for Protectorate and Sudeten. (173) Reich citizens were preferred in many ways. special benefits in the field of labour law, social security, in the period of the war they received more food allocations and, if they worked in the Protectorate administration, had individual salaries, special wage rates, could hold all the offices in the Reich administration and organizations and had all the rights belonging to the protectorate members. They also associated with their own interest organisations- e.g. However, not all Germans living on the territory of the Protectorate asked for Roman citizenship at first. There was undoubtedly a certain role to be played here with regard to how the situation would continue to develop and last but not least because they wanted to avoid work and defence duties. (174) Despite the plight of the Czech population, the expectations of the Germans were not fulfilled, hoping that many Czechs too