Final Solution of the Czech Question

This was in stark contrast to Germany's Final Solution to the Jewish question, which called for the total extermination of the Jews save for a select "honorary Aryans".

This part of the Czech lands did not include the Sudetenland, which mostly consisted of ethnic Germans and were directly annexed into the Reich.

The Reich Protector, Konstantin von Neurath, remained titular head but was sent on "leave" because Hitler, Himmler, and Heydrich felt his "soft approach" to the Czechs had promoted anti-German sentiment and encouraged resistance via strikes and sabotage.

"[4] Heydrich came to Prague and enforced such policies, fight resistance to the Nazi regime, and keep up production quotas of Czech motors and arms that were "extremely important to the German war effort".

"[5] He was eventually assassinated by the Czech resistance[6] as part of Operation Anthropoid, which led to a wave of reprisals by Schutzstaffel (SS) troops, including the destruction of villages and mass killings of civilians, notably the Lidice massacre.