Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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83 shoulders and in the nearest sea, then it will be the end of the rebellion", are the words of one of the emperor's advisors in the time of the White Mountain, which mentions Bohuslav Balbín in his Language Defense. (198) Around three hundred years later, other erectors of new order in connection with Bohemia speak again about the sea, about the Ice Sea, where they plan their displacement and "pressed to the east." (199) In His Basic Work Myth 20. The century was characterized by the leading ideologologist NSDAP Alfred Rosenberg Bohemia in a very unsavory way: "The wildness along with cowardice is still a sign of czechism, Haškův Švejk is the true national hero of this incompetent nation....In this great existential struggle, which involves honor, freedom and bread of such a creative nation as the German nation, it cannot be taken into account by the incompetent and conceited Poles, Bohechs and other such nations without any value. They must be pushed east in order to release the land for cultivation by the working hands of a German peasant. Only this gives the opportunity to lighten the German nation, which is so cramped in insufficient space and thus also gives the possibility to create a new cultural era of white man. (200) Rosenberg's pathetic call for a new space for German peasants marked the Nazi planners of new order simply as germanization of Bohemia and Moravia with the question of whether and to what extent it should be about Germanization of space or population. The elaborate of state secretary von Burgsdorff of September 1940 tells us what was really going on: © If the Czech-Moravian space is seen as a German space from a national point of view, then the decision on the issue of elimination or Germanisation is taking place regarding the Czech nation. displacement?), in the case of Germanization, to what extent, concerns about the overslovakisation of the German national body, restrictions on the requesting increase of the population, i.e. on the racially valuable part of the Czech nation, especially those with the legacy of German blood from the past? (201) However, all the participating places agreed that the enforcement of any of their concepts depends on Hitler's consent. While in 1934, Hitler was supposed to clone himself from Bohemia and Moravia to displace all Czechs and fill these territories with German settlers, later in 1939 - 1940 in various opinions of the Nazis involved