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7 General Department of Economics in Prague, 1 May 1944. No. V/l - 4136/44 Mnls mt Eing.: 12 MA11944 To the head of the Minister's Office in the House. L2.6. Subject: Uk position of Fritz A r n o 1 d bbYi908 kv. and Leopold Kr a u s b.19o0 Kv. -30.9.44 Reference: St.M. IV G-1/44 Appendices: 2 (Decision of the Wehrmacht authorized officer dated 2 May 1944 and letter of the Ministry of Commerce dated 3 May 1944.) Fritz A r n o l d and Leopold Kr a u s are executives of the craft organizations belonging to the Central Association of Craftsmen, the Central Federation of Craftmanships can only fulfil the tasks which I have assigned to it, if it retains a minimum level of German voluntary executives. For this reason, I have repeatedly insisted on the further deployment of the two. Ham On the letter personally signed by the Head of Division V to the Wehrmacht representative at the Reichsprotektor and commander in Wehrkreis Böhmen and Moravia, General of the Panzertruppen S c h a a a l, of 25 May. Aprii l944 was sent to me as a copy of the decision, after which a convocation of Fritz Arnold on 1 August had to be expected. Leopold Kraus is still posted until 30 June 1944. A cancellation of his Uk position has not yet taken place. After the Wehrmacht authorised representative maintains his negative position, further ideas of Division V on this matter are likely to be hopeless with the WeHR authorised representative. In the interests of a proper continuation of the tasks performed by Arnold and Kraus as executives of the craft organizations, it seems necessary that the Minister of State himself should use himself for the further Uk position. BoLo axe eucerey DerKommungshabey R_914 Der Ordnungspolizei Beha Reichsmotobter in Behmen w. Wöbean 17. V.1944 St.M.-1c/44 wl.: