English Translation

41 - 2 - increase of rations in the protectorate) a supply of grain and sugar will take place; an imperial supply to meat is unnecessary. The question of fat remains difficult. Sabotage acts against storage of food products have not occurred except on fires by discarded fire agents. The order of the fields and the cultivation of the winter seeds are in full swing and will be ready before the beginning of winter. The initiated administrative reform has brought a strong simplification and centralization of the civil servants' apparatus. It is finished in the organizational part. It will be constantly checked for its effects by the general inspector for the administration. Despite the surrender of German forces, the administrative apparatus continues undisturbed. More recently, 3o8 officials and employees could be released for the Wehrmacht. Bohemia and Moravia has only 1884 German forces for all administrative tasks in the population of 7.6 million people. Of these, 738 officials and employees work in the authority of the Reich Protector and 1146 officials and staff at the autonomous authorities. The reform in the police field is in full swing. In order to record the numerous cultural values in the Protectorate, especially in Germany, a staff of art historians, who have so far been insufficiently available, has been formed from police reservists. His task is to ensure and inventory valuable cultural assets in the cities and villages, but above all in the many confiscated castles of the foreign nobility, which must now be largely cleared of these artistic values because of their war-necessary disposition. The first results of this staff are the discovery and recording of valuable not-known paintings and gobelins, many old German furniture, large libraries and other German art values. Another staff has the order of the procurement of apartments for the accommodation of bomb-damaged families from the Old Kingdom. These apartments are apartments of expelled Jews, are further created by resettlement of children-poor Czech families from too large apartments into smaller and by the completion of almost finished houses and rooms. The mission staff continues to have the task of immediately verifying all seized houses.