Česko-moravská pobočka Hlavního rasového a osídlovacího úřadu SS, 1941–1945

RuSHA’s Bohemia & Moravia branch was a key tool in the Nazis’ Germanisation policy against the Czechs. Its mission originally involved the undertaking of a race survey of Czech children in order to ascertain the proportion of the population who were ‘Germanisable’ in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The result was to be of key importance for planning the Germanisation of the Czech lands. The branch soon acquired competencies in race selection and as such became an advisory body of the occupational administration in matters of citizenship, mixed marriages, admitting Czech pupils to German schools, acquiring Czech experts for Germanisation, and also anti-Jewish policies. Over the mere four years it operated, the originally small workplace gradually grew into a complex body with an internal structure of many branches. The authority’s activities had to be significantly restricted during the final months of war, with ever more RuSHA employees leaving for the front.