THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 334, sig. 110-4/180

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1ha Against the same party comrade Pradel is charged with the charge that the operation of the Köksanstalt in Hohenegger in Karwin verbally gives the order to wash worse, because in wars the customers must take any material. Since the material was also supplied to the steelworks for the production of panels, this order would mean that you. Pradel sabotaged the production.y Against the dir. K a a1 b e r g is charged that he had his factory apartment built out in wartime exceptionally, that in January l943 he had installed steam lines in his garden beds and caused the booking of these jobs under false account numbers. This would be the reproach of commercial infidelity, apart from the violation of the existing provisions of the war.gts. Finally, the accusation is also made that the management of the plant had received more extensive schnapps allocation by over-em- ployment and that this schnap allocation could be of benefit to members of the management. + I limit myself to this short selection from the submitted documents. The Pg. Schmelzer has rejected a direct and personal stand for the correctness of his assertion on questions from the staff manager, Pg Andersen. It is limited to demanding a repartisan review of this accusation by the Party Chancellery, and has asked the competent local 8319 party services on a number of occasions. This last Tatsu- before is in line with the accusation of partiality of the local party services to be read between the lines in his letters. In my opinion, this is one of the typical cases in which all possible rumors and gossip are carefully set up and some man finds himself who then appears as a contender for the purity of the movement, etc. Since the party comrade Schmelzer is neither able nor willing to defend the truth for the rumours he has colported, I consider the persecution of this matter by the party liaison office to be futile, all the more so since it is an area,