THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 398, sig. 110-4/245

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6 to paralyse important branches of the propagandistic cultural policy work and to have insurmountable consequences in the Czech sector. 5.) In the economic administration, the special situation is that the leading German official cannot confine himself solely to the anticipatory and supervising activity, but still has to provide a number of services as clerks. The only thing to mention is that commercial and permanent control with the Reichswiäheetamini ateriuerden management offices, as well as export inspection offices in Berlin must be exclusively in German hands. The same applies within the Protectorate for traffic with the arms injection and the German leaders of the economic groups. In these circumstances, it was particularly catastrophic that of a total of 15 senior officials 6 and 7 senior middle-level officials, 6 had to be transferred to the Wehrmacht alone. In order to monitor all management measures, a control division has been set up at the Ninisterium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit, which was previously headed by a German senior official. After the most recent confiscation operation, an official has had to take care of 60 staff in addition to a number of special fields, i.e. glass, ceramic, hols processing industry, as well as stones and earths. in the area of foreign trade and foreign exchange management, where a single German government council now has to monitor a Tacechian apparatus of l70 persons without the assistance of another German official or employee. If it is also considered that the monitoring body does not only carry out the tasks of the Landeswirtschaftsdee Reichswirtiumministeriume/gerldn, XYN, and the Reichs- schaftsberichten, which are active in the management areas, and establish the link between the 30 test centres in Berlin and the 12 pre-examination centres in Prague in the field of export control, the effects of the current personnel can be clearly seen. the territory of the administration of price formation and of red wine