STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1596, sig. 109-4/1350

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30a/ 30. I would like to apply for the sole acquisition of the factory KRAus, the bank will make available to me, in the form of a richly guaranteed credit, the extra own funds of RM 200 000, which is missing from me, the request for participation in the Reichswirtschaftshilfe, and immediately upon receipt of the loan promesse with regard to this, a new application will be submitted to the Herr Reichsprotektor and he will plead for this operation to be granted to me alone. The application for participation in the Reichswirtschaftshilfe was submitted to the Kreditanstalt der Deutschen in Prague on 1.II.1941 and received the credit promesse from the bank mentioned above on 7.II.-1941, whereby the bank agreed to provide me with a loan of 400,000 RM for the acquisition and operation of the mechan.Webererei KRAus in Groß- Porschitsch. With regard to this credit announcement (promesse), I addressed the new request to the Lord Reichsprotector Abbot II/1-Jd. on 8.II.1941 to authorize me the sole takeover of the weaving mill Kraus; on 10.III.19 41 the Abbot II/1/Jd of the Lord Imperial Protector under Zl. II/1-Jd-5931/41 as already mentioned on page 27.