After the Germans sliced off the Sudetenland and occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia, they divided it up and what is now the Czech Republic (less the Sudetenland which was added back in after the war) was administered by the Nazis as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Unlike central Poland around Warsaw which was administered as the General Government while the northern and western areas occupied by the Germans after the Polish invasion were to be incorporated into the Greater German Reich.
In short, the General Government was run by the Germans, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, on the other hand, was run by a puppet Czech government (although Germans in the Protectorate were exempt from control of the civilian government.
Ahh, gotcha, thanks. So it’s sort of like the equivalent of accusing them of being Vichy France.
And FWLIW I have an old friend I’ve gotten reacquainted with after a move, who came here in the 1980s as a child with his family as religious refugees from Chechoslovakia. I *think* that he and his family would be considered Moravian, will have to ask.
And FWLIW I have an old friend I’ve gotten reacquainted with after a move, who came here in the 1980s as a child with his family as religious refugees from Chechoslovakia. I *think* that he and his family would be considered Moravian, will have to ask.
In short, the General Government was run by the Germans, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, on the other hand, was run by a puppet Czech government (although Germans in the Protectorate were exempt from control of the civilian government.
Reynhard Heydrich was the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, until Operation Daybreak. Even though technically Emil Hacha was the President of Bohemia and Moravia, but he had little power.
Slovakia, on the other hand, was more like a true Puppet State, with Josef Tiso and the leader.