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95 ASSOCIATION OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY INDUSTRY FOR OBJECTIVES AND PERSONAL BODIES OF PUBLIC RIGHTS BUSINESS I A 1 Prague, 11.1.1945 Wenzelspiatz 48 To the letter of the telex; 378-51 Telegr. address: Agricultural Association, Prague Gesch -Z. Postcheck account: Prague Nr. 76061 Bank account: Landesbank, Prague 8S6 Dr.Ernst C h m i d 4 Head of Food and Agriculture at the German State Institute, P r a g IT, Deutschehof 65. Subject: Cigarette actions. In December 1943 and January 1944, the Association of Agriculture and Forestry carried out the 1st Cigarette Action (2 installments) on behalf of the Minister of State as a Christmas special assignment to farmers, family members and workers for over 1 8 years.The action ran through the Steinsdörfer office at Mr Armamentsobmann. A total of 2l,220,000 cigarettes were distributed at the time, through the district associations and local authorities. The distribution took place in accordance with the points of view laid down in the circulars /Articles and 2/. The circulars also contain the number of cigarettes distributed. A second cigarette action took place from August lg44. A special allocation of 5 million cigarettes was granted to forest workers by the Armaments Officer, Ing. Steinsdörfer's office in the year 1944, which was to be distributed as a benefit premium. Of this special allocation, only 3 million were needed by the Forestry Section, the remaining 2 million were allocated to the Federation of Agriculture and Forestry on the basis of an agreement between the Head of the Food and Agriculture Division and the Head, the Forestry Division, with the order to distribute these cigarettes to the farmers as a crop allocation. As the distribution in whole packages is most useful, the farm workers were divided into ten pieces. The distribution had to be carried out by the district associations and local observatories according to the enclosed guidelines /Appendix 3/. In all, 1.7l0.580 pieces of cigarettes were distributed to the farmworkers, so that a residual stock of 289.420 remained. When the agricultural workers of the Protectorate in Niederdonau began to work, I received a special allocation of cigarettes from stely,Verbandsobmann Dr.Holik as a benefit premium for the agricultural employees of the protectorate. I therefore sit down with the b.w. 101