English Translation

45a is larger. The following is added: The urban-inhabiting part of the consumer community has, as is well known, a much greater wear on textile and footwear than the part living on the flat land. The percentage of the German population living on flat land is so minimal that it does not matter at all. In turn, the percentage of the Czech population living on the flat land is so large that it is very important. Thus, the following results: The German part lives almost exclusively in cities, the Czech part lives in the overnumber in the countryside. In other words, the German population consists only of people who have a great wear on textile-una footwear, whereas the Czechs have only a small percentage of people, who have high wear on textiles and footwear. For this small part, therefore, much more covers are left, because the quota is calculated by the head count. As a third point of the disadvantage of the Germans, the Czech authorities, despite all the monitoring and other measures, do not cooperate with the accuracy and conscientiousness of the German authorities. The German authority, out of its certainty, rejects many applications which the Czech authorities would approve with their further conscience. 00780 All these considerations led me to the decision not only to transfer the issue of the clothes cards, but also the issue for textile and footwear products to the Protectorate's municipal offices. The circle leader of the NSDAP, with whom I have examined the matter in detail, agreed with my view and, just as I promised myself, with this regulation, a more accurate and better supervision of the Germans in the Protectorate than was possible on the basis of the previous procedure. It is based on this knowledge and with regard to the decree of the Ministry of Commerce of 4 April 19941 No 1 l7856/41 I D, which provides in point C (page 15) that: