THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1076, sig. 109-4/830

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6h - 5 - Also this time I had my meat cards with me and also, when hacker handed me the meat, took them from my bag in the opinion, hackers cut off the corresponding stamps. With a negative hand movement he gave me to understand that I should take the stamps again. A third time I went to hacker shortly before Easter l942. -----This time he did not ask me what I wanted and I didn't express a wish either. He gave me about 1 kg of beef and pork (together) about equal parts. ---- I did not offer any stamps this time because I had to learn repeatedly that hackers did not accept any stamps. ----- During the Easter holidays, my husband noticed that there was a little too much meat on our table in relation to the brands available to us. In addition, the supply period came to an end at that time, so that it had to be particularly noticeable, because I had the meat on the meat stamps beside the meat from Hacker. My husband then confronted me and I told him about the matter. My husband was certainly uncomfortable with my description and he told me to refrain from doing so in the future. I did not actually go to the Selchwarenfabrik anymore and did not buy any other meat goods without brands. ..... Some time before I even went to hackers, I once bought together with Mrs. Hertel in the delicacy shop Znamenaček. At that time the end of the current supply period had just arrived. I had no more Pleischmarken and could therefore no longer buy meat. It was only a few days before the start of the new supply period. Mrs Hertel had an almost whole meat card on this occasion, which I was very surprised about. She told me that she could give me something, that she had the stamps over. I then let myself be given on her stamps' loo grams of meat goods.