Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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86 formulated) on how to take a road inventory and ordered RuSHA to propose a questionnaire that Czech doctors should fill out during normal medical examinations of school children. In addition to innocent items such as weight, urine analysis or eye data, the form included others, considered decisive for the determination of race: size and physical constitution, eye color, hair, skin shape. Two photographs, one of the profiles, the other en face, were to be attached to the questionnaire. When Himmler sent a questionnaire to Frank, he added in confidence that the results would allow the experts to obtain the required ©rass inventory for the first time. RuSHA first secured the cooperation of the Protector's Office and in March 1941 started the whole event. In addition to school children, doctors, police officers and civil servants were to be investigated later. (213) The completed questionnaires were probably sent to Berlin and their fate is unknown. Frank was informed as the only senior SS and police leader (Höherer SS-und Polizeifürer - HSSPF), who was supposed to arrange X-ray examinations according to Prof. Dr. Holfelder's system. (214) With the help of five X-ray trains, the first of which started operations in the spring of 1942 © was to be subjected to racial examination by all the population in cooperation with the commandos, consisting of Racial Revisors RuSHA, and thus provided "scientific" evidence for later mutiny. (215) Racist evaluation of the Czech population should also play an important role in the selection of young people who would be interested in studying at German universities after the closure of Czech universities. According to the Guidelines of the Main Office of Reich Security (RSHA), only children who are suitable for German studies could be admitted to study, and since they were members of a foreign race, they were to carry out the examination of the adepts by the relevant SS staff representing the Reich Commissioner for the consolidation of the German race. The decision as to whether or not they were people suitable for Germanisation should depend on the goodwill of political reliability and character, as well as on the outcome of an investigation into racial origin. In all cases, it should be done individually. If doubts arise, the final decision should be left to