STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1311, sig. 109-4/1065

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33 - S - Strength does not yet meet the national, olitic requirements of the Protectorate. The further expansion has been necessary and has already been initiated. 1 October 1 940, which has now implemented Article 9 of the Führer's Decree of l6.3.1939. The integration of the Protectorate into the German customs and economic territory will take place without any particular difficulties, since this event had been prepared by a long time by the establishment of appropriate economic organizations, the introduction of the rules of note and the planned alignment of the price and wage levels. In the commercial economy sector, the trip in Protectorct is already largely aligned with the situation in the other Reich area. Therefore, price reductions are more likely to be reduced in various areas. On the other hand, in the agricultural sector, the necessary balance had to be made upwards, which was always possible only to the indispensable extent and with the maintenance of a certain difference in prices, but until avf beer and sugar all we-et has never been allowed to enter here, craftmen received the authorization to make the marketing conditions of their members less difficult. In order to carry out uniform economic uses, German, VAT and customs legislation had to be incorporated into Protuktoret. The protectorate's economy, the zveifcllos hr cine not unbuttlichu test of the burden, experienced a temporary protection by Gubietsschutz- Men in viner Reihc of luguet:iubranchen and transfer