30 September 1938Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Great Britain and France accept the ‘Munich Agreement’, which means the loss of the Czechoslovak borderland (the so-called Sudetenland) and the demise of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
1939
15 March 1939German troops occupy the remaining territory of the Czech part of Czechoslovakia, i.e. the territory of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, which Germany and Poland have not occupied and annexed until then. The day after that, the newly occupied territories are established as ‘Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’.
1942
9 March 1942The Government of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech lands) issues Decree No. 89/1942 Coll. on the ‘Preventive Fight against Crime’. This order is largely a copy of the decree of the same name issued in the German Reich by Heinrich Himmler in 1937. On this basis, Sinti and Roma can be deported to concentration camps at any time.
