Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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92 Visiting hours for the Jewish population were constantly changing into different businesses and institutions. All of these circumstances increased the pressure on the victims, persecuted daily at every step without any certainty that they did not exactly exceed any ban for which violations could be severely punished. Jewish children were not allowed to play on public playgrounds and during the year were excluded from visiting German and later Czech public and private schools, or the number of Jews at Czech schools was limited by 4% quota. From September 1939, Jews were not allowed to stay outside their apartment after the twentieth hour, and a year later they could not leave their residence without special permission, even for a transitional period. If the Jew was summoned to court or office, the subpoena was also valid as a written permit to travel back and forth. In Jewish letters no. 24 of 13 June 1941 e.g. The Jewish religious community, which banned Jews from becoming and forming groups before the settlement of the village, as well as in any other place, was notified. In trams they could only ride on the platform of the last car, the last carriage was defined in the railway transport. Except for exceptions, they were not allowed to participate in telephone stations, drive motor vehicles, fish, chase, Jewish music, organize conversion courses without permission, breed domestic animals, including pigeons, etc.Other orders concerned limited purchasing possibilities.For example, on the basis of the decrees of the Protectorate Minister of Agriculture of November 1941, published in the Collection of Laws and Regulations under No. 384, 385 and 414, Jews were excluded from the collection of onions, apples, oranges and mandarins. Another decree of the same minister then prohibited Jews from taking carp, candy and coffee in the pre-Christmas period. All these regulations were to humiliate Jews and separate them from other companies, to create walls of the imaginary ghetto. As a symbol of this racial segregation, the Nazis ordered that, from March 1940, citizens bear a special title ©Jude and according to the decree of the Reich Interior Minister from 1 September 1941 (239), all Jews over six years of age had to go public with only a yellow, six-pointed David's star with the inscription "Jude" in the visible place of the garment and restrict their movement. This police regulation also applied in the Protectorate, with the Reichs