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42a 2 to provide the labour force, then I myself would understandably try to help quickly and to the extent necessary. Gauleiter Dr. Jury was then informed about the new=order of the armaments organization in Bohemia and Moravia. He warmly welcomed the simplification that had taken place, which, in his view, would also be very desirable in the rest of the Reich. Furthermore, a brief discussion was held about the establishment of the people's storm in the Protectorate. In doing so, I pointed out that the German men in Bohemia and Moravia were in any case particularly heavily stressed and that caution had to be exercised when drawing to the people's storm. In the other case, it was to be expected that particularly heavily claimed men could no longer fully fulfil their professional duties. This would be in the Protectorate, where heu= te is a large part of the armament manufacturing of the empire, to be unresponsible. My senior staff, especially as a result of the dissolution of the armor services, are extremely tense and partly very unstable. Jch e.g. his ge= health recently impaired so much that I have mine since December 1st ds.Js. Dr. Jury noted that these questions were to be discussed in the so-called circle committee to which I am to belong. Finally, I came to speak about the attacks that were directed by the DAF in Niederdonau against the Bata A.G. (German: Bata). Gauleiter Dr.Jury strongly condemned this and said that he would make sure that something like this would not happen again. 53373