Abstract
The paper briefly presents the relationship of anti-Semitism and Czech media in the initial period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, specifically from March 1939 until the end of 1940. In several key cases, the authors show how the ideology of anti-Semitism in the media was promoted, both by the news, as well as fictional content.
It also deals with the role of media and some media professionals in the development of pressure on the Czech protectorate representation and the leadership of the National Union. In the reporting period, the pressure exerted by a group of leading journalistic collaborators under the leadership of editor of the Večer (Evening) Vladimir Krychtálka manifested not only in articles calling for brief action against the Jewish population, but even the direct initiation of regulation, by which was the life of Jews in the Protectorate further restricted.
This regulation sharpened the rules adopted in the meantime Czech protectorate government, but in some ways also go beyond the requirements of so called Nuremberg racial laws.