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

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-9 that instead of 3,000 were only l200 at the job. In a longer session with Mayor Dr.Schreiter, district head Watzke and the head of the administrative staff, Oberbaurat Sponer, I have enforced that the organization is raised from today as well as in Brno and Weisskirchen. Oberbaurat Sponer and Kreisleiter Watzke complained above all about the fact that Weisskirchen has so far not provided any tools and also the workers (local Olomoucians) who were promised by Weisskirchen, arrived to a small extent. Circle leader Watzke expects that a total of 14,000 workers will be deployed in Olomouc if the requirements of the Wehrmacht are to be met. This means that at least lo.oo0 workers must be accommodated in storage. All straw bags, blankets, ovens and coal are missing for the quarters to be provided. In Olomouc there is a rumor among the population that for 3 days it would have been cooked for 1 200 workers without the food being actually distributed. It is spoiled every time, because one would not have known where it should be followed by the workers. I have not been able to verify the rumor, but with Pg. Knobloch I believe that something can be true. In turn, this disparity would be attributed to the fact that the party took over the labor force and put it directly into action, so that it was not possible to record the labour force and thus a regulated edition of the food in the evening. In the case of local workers, the guidance by the camp care must be even more striking than with the camp shelters, because the workers otherwise