Úřad říšského protektora v Čechách a na Moravě, Praha

In the fonds, there are many jewish related documents and for studying the theme of protectorate Jews it is a fundamental fonds. There are documents related generally to the status of Jews in the Protectorate, their legal status in the freelance work or in the state administrative. Valuable documents are related to the Aryanization/Arisierung of the jewish property (jewish companies, trades, traffics, agricultural and forestry companies, timber companies) and its later redistribution, various lists of aryanizated property and lists of posted Treuhänders. There are also documents about the Nazi confiscation of jewish flats and their later redistribution, allocation/revocation of the citizenship of the protectorate Jews and documents generally regarding to question of race and its protection. There are also information about jewish securities and debentures in banks and various reports about its transfers. The fonds - Office of the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia - has further additions. Mostly the documents are from the provenance of Commissioners of the Reichsprotector. The finding aid No. 212 is available in Czech online on: http://badatelna.eu/fond/5909. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC has a partly copy of the fonds from the Prague National Archives http://collections.ushmm.org/findingaids/RG-48.005M.pdf The creator of the fonds is the Office of the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia which was established in April 1939, soon after the German occupation of the rest of the first Czechoslovak Republic in March 1939. The Office of the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia was the fundamental office from all of the German Nazi occupational offices in the Protectorate. It controlled all protectorate offices - occupational and autonomous - in the Protectorate, including the Czech protectorate government, it also published administration regulations. The Head of the Office was the Reichsprotector. He was a representative of the Reich in the Protectorate Czech and Moravia, delegated by Adolf Hitler, to supervise and defend the political and economic interests of The Third Reich. Reichsprotectors were Constantin von Neurath, Reinhard Heydrich, Kurt Daluege and later in 1943 the Office was lead by K. H. Frank. After the assassination of Heydrich in 1942 a during the year 1943 the Office of the Reichsprotector was reorganized and formally existed till the end of the war, in the fact however it was a part of and belonged under the authority of the German State ministry lead by the State Secretary K. H. Frank.