THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, INV. 1490, sig. 109-4/1244

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62) The Head of Division II Prague, 4 June 1941. Home ! -6 Mr. S t a t s se k r e t ä r F516. - about the Under-Secretary of State - At the meeting with the Ministerial Director Moritz of the Reichsernirungsministerium on 30 May 1941. On 12 May 1941, on a request from the Secretary of State, he made the clear statement that in future the Reich would no longer be willing and able to help the Protectorate with deliveries if there were shortages. June 1941 at Mr. State Secretary Körner's meeting planned in Berlin of the economic department ppM. head of the Reich dependent and occupied territories. As a basis for my remarks, I have at the moment determined by the Group of Food and Agriculture in which areas the own data-de-dt a te e protectorate of the Reich granted import participations for the supply of the local area according to the ration rates of the Empire is not sufficient. If the empire - even taking into account the Reich's interest in the great armaments industry of the Protectorate - insists on its negative position, such measures would have to be prepared already now, so that not too deep interventions in the field of food supply will take place next winter. Home I will ask for an opportunity to speak in time before the Berliner Tagang.