Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
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The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Template:Lang-de; Template:Lang-cs) was a protectorate of Nazi Germany established on 16 March 1939 following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939. Earlier, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Nazi Germany had incorporated the Czech Sudetenland territory as a Reichsgau (October 1938).
The protectorate's population was majority ethnic Czech, while the Sudetenland was majority ethnic German. Following the establishment of the independent Slovak Republic on 14 March 1939, and the German occupation of the Czech rump state the next day, Adolf Hitler established the protectorate on 16 March 1939 by a proclamation from Prague Castle.
The German government justified its intervention by claiming that Czechoslovakia was descending into chaos as the country was breaking apart on ethnic lines, and that the German military was seeking to restore order in the region.
See also
- List of rulers of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
- Government Army
- German occupation of Czechoslovakia
- Prague Offensive
- Resttschechei
- History of Slovakia
- Concentration camps Lety and Hodonín
- Out Distance
- Slovak Republic (1939–1945)
