THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2224, sig. 109-11-25

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123 - 4 - the need to introduce iron saving in the Protectorate. It will be examined immediately together with the Financial Department in the course of the current tax reform. The representatives of the Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz A.G., who are also present in Hamburg and who are to transfer to the Radetzky-Kaserne with part of their work from Cologne to Brno, have expressed the wish to make a corresponding arrangement for the relocation they have planned. This will be decided as soon as the company has submitted the requested documents, from which the wage differences are apparent. As to the question of the transfer of family members to the Protectorate, there is a keen desire of the shifting German companies to promote relocations as much as possible. The Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Hamburg, for their part, would like to be fully aware of the voluntary nature and consider relocations to be desirable only to a very limited extent. Since it is possible to settle the question of the transfer around a matter which falls probably within the competence of the Reichskom= missars for the consolidation of German folklore and the Haupt=abteilung I of the Imperial Protector han= in consultation with the main department V (Department V 2).