Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
autonomous administrative unit of Nazi Germany in the occupied Czech lands (1939–1945)
The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was a partially-annexed territory of Nazi Germany that was created on 16 March 1939 after the German occupation of the Czech lands. The protectorate's population was mostly ethnic Czech. The territory became the Third Czechoslovak Republic in 1945.
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | |||||||||
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| 1939–1945 | |||||||||
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.svg) Coat of arms
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| Anthem: Kde domov můj / Wo meine Heimat ist[1][2] "Where my home is" | |||||||||
.svg) The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1942, in dark green within Nazi Germany in light green | |||||||||
| Status | Protectorate and partially-annexed territory of Nazi Germany[3] | ||||||||
| Capital | Prague | ||||||||
| Common languages | German · Czech | ||||||||
| Government | Unitary Nazi one-party fascist protectorate under a totalitarian dictatorship | ||||||||
| Reich Protector | |||||||||
• 1939–1943 | Konstantin von Neurath | ||||||||
• 1941–1942 (acting) | Reinhard Heydrich | ||||||||
• 1942–1943 (acting) | Kurt Daluege | ||||||||
• 1943–1945 | Wilhelm Frick | ||||||||
| State President | |||||||||
• 1939–1945 | Emil Hácha | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||
• 1939 (acting) | Rudolf Beran | ||||||||
• 1939–1941 | Alois Eliáš | ||||||||
• 1941–1945 | Jaroslav Krejčí | ||||||||
• 1945 | Richard Bienert | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 15 March 1939[4] | |||||||||
| 8 May 1945 | |||||||||
| Currency | Protectorate koruna | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Czech Republic | ||||||||
References
change- ↑ Gössel, Gabriel (2008). The Czech Republic's national anthem down the ages. Úřad vlády ČR. p. 64. ISBN 978-80-87041-42-0.
- ↑ "Hudba v Čechách a na Moravě v období německého protektorátu 3". 25 July 2007.
- ↑ Gruner 2015, p. 104.
- ↑ 12 - The Slovak state, 1939–1945 in Slovakia in History, Ivan Kamenec; Mikuláš Teich, Dušan Kováč and Martin D. Brown eds. Cambridge University Press, 7 October 2011
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