Vorgeschichte der Regierungsverordnung über die Rechtsstellung der Juden im öffentlichen Leben
Circumstances that preceded the government regulation on the legal status of Jews in public life

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the history of the government regulation on the legal status of Jews in public life, which was approved by the Protectorate government on July 4, 1939, but published only nine months later, on April 24, 1940. The author traces the origins of this regulation to Hitler's directives on the German occupation policy in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which were presented by State Secretary Wilhelm Stuckart on March 25, 1939. The author analyzes the differences between the definition of Jewishness proposed by the Protectorate government and the one imposed by the Reich Protector Konstantin von Neurath on June 21, 1939, based on the Nuremberg laws. The author also explores the reasons for the delay in the publication of the regulation and the interventions of various German authorities, such as the Reich Ministry of the Interior, the Office of the Reich Protector, and the Security Police, in the drafting process. The author concludes that the regulation was a result of the conflicting interests and dynamics of the German and Czech actors involved in the Nazi occupation policy.

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