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issued by him pursuant to this Section was the Ordinance of
27.9.41 concerning the Declaration of a State of Civil Emergency."
It would, however, be wrong to assume that the Ordinance of
27.9.41 was issued solely under the general powers granted by the
Ordinance of 7.6.1939 and that HITLER and the German Govern-
ment learned only after its i,sue what use was made by the Reich
Protector of the powers so granted.
On 26.9.41 HEYDRICH was entrusted by HITLER with the
conduct of the office of Reich Protector. Alone the nomination of
a man like HEYDRICH who, as everyone knew, excelled by far
even the average Gestapo man in lack of scruples and in brutality,
served the terrorisation of the Czechoslovak people and was meant
to serve.-The methods by which business is to be done are
unambiguously determined if it is entrusted to a man like
HEYDRICH; they can only be criminal. And everyone who knew
HEYDRICH as the authorities responsible for his appointment
knew him, wanted such methods when assigning HEYDRICH as
acting Reich Protector.
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On September 26th, 1941, HEYDRICH arrived in Prague. The
Ordinance on the Declaration of a State of Civil Emergency was
issued one day later. It was obviously prepared beforehand and
its issue was the execution of one of the directions given to
HEYDRICH on his way.
Had HITLER and the German Government not known the
Ordinance dated 27.9.41 before it was published and had they not
agreed to it, would they not have taken exception to it? However,
it remained in force. An instrument such as this Ordinance was
allowed to be in the hands of a man like HEYDRICH for many
months. And many months after it was issued it served
HEYDRICH's successors as "legal basis for the massacres" of Lidice.
In the same way it may be excluded that the Reich Protector
or his subordinates to whom he delegate'd his extraordinary powers
under Section 2, § 1 of the Ordinance dated 27.9.41 (Se:. 2, 5 2 of
the Ordinance of 27.9.41), carried out the massacre of Lidice
without HITLER's and the German Government's knowledge and
consent.
The perpetrators and their instigators did not even try to
conceal the mass murder of Lidice. On the contrary they were
made known to the public immediately after they had been
committed. The aim was obviously to demonstrate to the Czecho-
slovak people, nay to the whole world, that the National Socialist