Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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85 such orders and bans that do not consider it necessary and whose execution in their absolute supremacy they consider impossible... (207) The activities of various Nazi institutions, dealing with racial matters, were to lay the ethnic re-creation of Bohemia and Moravia scientific foundations. In connection with the adoption of Frank's and Neurath's memorial file (208), Hitler considered the Germanization of the space as being possible in September 1940 and, if at the same time, the racially unusable and the Reich of the enemy part of the Czechs would be excluded, possibly subjected to special treatment, with the choice of assimilable Czechs ...accurate and strict ... having to take place on the basis of certain directives. (209) Less than three weeks later, Hitler spoke to Frank again, this time in Neurath's absence, but with Himmler's participation, and commissioned him to draw up a great plan for how the Germanization process should be carried out by us, and to prepare the so-called inventory of the Czech nation and its values. (210) Himmler's presence during the October interview pointed out that the important role would be played by the SS members and that their criteria would ultimately be decisive. Already before Hitler decided, Reinhard Heydrich sent Frank Himmlar his own opinion on Frank's memorial file of August 28, 1940. Heydrich was the first and inevitable step in the immediate launch of the national inventory, which would result in a purely bloody determination of the percentage /Bohemia/ which, regardless of thinking, would be taken into account for the Germanisation. Only then could a decision be made on the place of the mutiny and fate of the percent of the population that would remain as incapable of being mutilated. (211) The goal thus set was also reflected in the guidelines for Germanisation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, prepared for Frank by Group I 1ÚŘP, which Frank received on 30 November 1940. There was proposed, as the SS later partially also practiced, the implementation of a summary of all the human material in the Protectorate, organized for reasons of confidentiality © first as a large health measure ©. The number of Germans was to be determined again by the Germans and by the fact that they had not yet declared themselves to be Germans, and it was necessary to "sort out" both the hard fit and the enemy, although racially valuable foreigners. (212) In October 1940 Himmler and Heydrich discussed how to detect the percentage of people capable of assimilation, or (as it was)