The German repressive apparatus in the area of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Morava before and after the attack on Poland
Abstract
This chapter deals with the origin of the German repressive apparatus in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during 1939 and the changes in connection with the beginning of World War II. The authors discussed personal and institutional basis of repressive apparatus.
They are concerned with the forming of local structure of uniformed (Ordnungspolizei) and non-uniformed police (Sicherheitspolizei), security service (Sicherheitsdienst), SS-troops and Wehrmacht. With regard to the occupation of Czech lands and gradually increased home resistance movement, which caused the origin of the repressive apparatus network, the second part of the chapter analyses the first cases of Czech resistance fighters arrests and possible adversaries of occupational regime (arrests of Czechoslovak press agency's members, preventive action Albrecht I).
Both actions should keep peace in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the attack on Poland. The final part deals with the consolidation of the German repressive apparatus in the Protectorate in autumn 1939.
The structure of repressive apparatus wasn't changed significantly in following years.