English Translation

49 Division VI Minlsteramt 12. IX. 1944 Food and Agriculture ag., den Eing.: 13 SEP. 1944 VI - R/3 - 132/44 g home To the head of the ministry in the House of Ds Subject: Presentation of the Head of Division VI to the Minister of State on 12.9.1944. 1.) With regard to the telegram from the Secretary of State R i e c k e, which calls for the reduction of the proportion of wheat produced by bread-growers to 25 % of the population of the Protectorate, the Minister of State decided that the draft reply would make the proposal to maintain, for reasons of coverage, the rations to be issued today by December. 2.) The Minister of State agrees that the reduction in rations to be carried out from the 68th supply period on bread, which amounts to about 8 % of the previous bread entitlement for normal consumers, is also to be achieved in the same percentage ratio for the Wehrmacht's 4th meal rate. 3.) No reductions are to be made in the case of coffee substitutes. 4.) The Minister of State was informed to the Protectorate in the 6th year of the war about the supply demands of the Reich expressed in the letter of the commissioner for the four-year plan, Business Group Nutrition, of September 7, 1944. As a result of the cultivation quotas for bread cereals prescribed in the Protectorate, it is unlikely that it will be possible to meet the feed grain requirements of the Reich, which have been increased from 12,000 to 50,000 tonnes. It is proposed that it be left to the Protectorates, in which cereals the 200,000 tonnes required by the Reich will be met. 5.) The continuing rising demands of the Wehrmacht on the supply of horses from the Protectorate and the increasing increase in the number of horses