National Partnership

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National Partnership (Czech: Národní souručenství, NS, German: Nationale Gemeinschaft) was the only authorized political party in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Membership was mandatory for all Czech male full-aged citizens of the Protectorate.^[1]

The party was established as a reaction to the

The Prime Minister of Bohemia and Moravia Alois Eliáš was in communication with the Czechoslovak government-in-exile and helped the Czech Resistance movement until he was executed in June 1942.^[2]

After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, Emanuel Moravec gained propaganda influence. After 15 January 1943, the party ceased to fulfill the functions of a political party and became a larger propaganda machine of the Nazi regime.^[3]

Politicians

The most prominent politicians of the party:

• Alois Eliáš (1890–1942), a former Czechoslovak General who was executed for his secret contacts with the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in 1942; Prime Minister from 1939 to 1941.
• Ladislav Karel Feierabend, Minister of Agriculture from 1939 to 1940. Joined the London-based Czechoslovak government in 1940.
• Jiří Havelka, Minister of Traffic from 1939 to 1941.
• Josef Ježek, Interior Minister from 1939 to 1942.
• Jan Kapras, Minister of Education from 1939 to 1942.
• Josef Kalfus (1880–1956), Minister of Finance from 1939 to 1945.
• Josef Nebeský, Party President from 1939 to 1941.
• Josef Fousek (1875–1942), Party President from 1941 to 1942.
• Jaroslav Krejčí (1892–1956), Minister of Justice from 1939 to 1945, as well as Minister President from 1942 to 1945.
• Jindřich Kamenický, Minister of Traffic from 1941 to 1945.
• Walter Bertsch, Minister of Economics from 1942 to 1945.
• Richard Bienert (1881–1949), Interior Minister from 1942 to 1945, as well as the last Minister President in 1945.
• Adolf Hrubý (1893–1951), Minister of Agriculture from 1942 to 1945.
• Tomáš Krejčí, Führer (Vůdce) of the Party from 1942 to 1945.
• Emanuel Moravec, Minister of Education from 1942 to 1945.

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