THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 105, sig. 110-3/45

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11a of the labour force to my supervisors. Mr. Busch explained that the decree of the Minister of State did not interest him, but he had to follow the orders given to him. I then had the Czech local administrators removed in order to avoid a dispute between Germans before them. The workers were again handed over to the NSDAP. In addition, this transfer took place in an impossible form. The school to which the workers were led was occupied with pupils. The workers partly went into the classrooms and, as local administrators have told me, there were very unpleasant exchanges of words between teachers and workers. The political leaders ran after the workers and finally had to use the protectorate police to help them. Nevertheless, a considerable number of workers simply went home. I was told that the workers were immediately led to the workplaces to take over earlier transports, so that they had to take their suitcases to the workstations, except for the tool. In a joint meeting with Mayor Černy, the Chief of Operations of the NSDAP, Pg.Hermann and the other members of the staff, I asserted that from 3.2.1945 the workers will be handed over to me by the employment office and immediately taken into proper care. For the workers already employed, who have been handed over to the NSDAP, unbundling is carried out in the sense that the employment at the workplace takes into account the housing. The greatest understanding of my demand was shown by the 6300y