National Socialist Economic Steering and Enterpreneurial Courses of Action in Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1945)
2012
Abstract
The study explores the enterpreneurial opportunities open to Bohemian and Moravian enterprises under Nazi occupation. Although geografically part of East Central Europe, as far as economics was concerned the Germans treated the Bohemian Lands similarly to how they treated countries occupied in Western Europe.
This was due to the extent of the economic development in Czech Lands. Therefor the Nazis did not completely exploit Protectorate enterprises, but rather tried to offer them material incentives to follow the German course.
Nevertherless there were signaficant differences between the attitude and treatment of German and Czech enterprises, resulting in each having different courses of action open to them.