Publication details
Vztah českého státu k Říši a jeho využití a zneužití v Protektorátu Čechy a Morava
| Title in English | The Relationship of Czech State to the Empire in the Middle Ages and its Use and Abuse in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Státoprávní vztahy českého státu a římskoněmecké říše ve středověku a jejich důsledky pro další vývoj. |
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| Field | Law sciences |
| Keywords | Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; Reich; K. H. Frank; Middle Age |
| Description | The relationship of Czech state and the medieval German Empire is the core of the dispute between the Czech and German general and legal historians at least the last 150 years. Czech and German nationalist historiography used to interpret this relationship mainly in the second half of the 19th and in the first half of the 20 century quite different as it was at the moment suit the national ideas of the nation. Either it was considered that the Czech state was fully dependent component of the Holy Roman Empire, or that it was not at all. After March 1939 when there was a military occupation of Bohemia and Moravia and the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Nazi leaders and Czech collaborators tried to convince Czech as well as world public community that the constitutional relationship of the Czech state and the Empire after 15 March 1939 is nothing new and that it only continues the thousand-year old tradition that links the two state units. This paper points out the way how the historical subject of the proportion of Bohemia and Empire has been used and misused in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939 -1945). |