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

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35a - 2 - For months, the commissioners of the Office of Spatial Information under my authority have been trying to identify spaces that can be converted into mass shelters for the most younger Czech workers, who are assigned to Austria. Although their explorations have been carried out in close cooperation with all the local authorities involved, they have only provided suitable mass shelters for about 2.00o people.All attempts to increase this completely insufficient number are unlikely to overcome any difficulties. The city administration of Brno, for its part, has made exemplary efforts to obtain individual apartments for the German followers of Klöckner and their relatives, but so far only 35 dwellings have been made available and a further 30 one-room apartments are to be set up in a school in the Lehmstätte. Since it was shown that the housing and space needed in large-scale bruns was far more serious than had been assumed, I myself and on my behalf the head of my space exploration office have repeatedly negotiated in detail with the local authorities in Brno. Whereas agreement was reached on the following necessary measures : 1/ The large number of apartments found in Brinn which are currently used by economic groups and associations, by public authorities, by the party's divisions and by other services, should, where possible, be released by the establishment of these offices in closed shops, coffee shops and business premises or in new barracks; As can be seen from the following overview, it should be possible here to obtain at least 75 to 100 dwellings. .32235 2/ The action already initiated to merge law firms, as well as to merge other service and business premises, should be actively pursued. 3/ The former Jewish owner's dwellings confiscated by the SS have not yet been given an overview of them and of the dwellings occupied by mixed marriages and which since then have been used for the purposes of