STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1296, sig. 109-4/1050

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eeb 2'BISpf MoU eib Ia.oe ald..lwov ttol Organisation in the event of air raids to immediately look after the homeless population, has been fulfilled by the provision of a number of municipal civil servants and employees for this purpose. The supervising authority -8.X0.B over this office is the Wehrmachtamtamt. -.tEect The work of the Wehrenmachtsamt. Dr. Glaser vo effe is standing, growing from day to day. Above all, the sudden and short-term requirements of new buildings toy do and accommodations of all kinds are causing great difficulties. The students on leave from the front have so far mostly been accommodated in private UU apartments. In addition, however, many requests have been made to the Wehrmacht Office, according to which for protectorates offices suddenly rooms should be opened, ..s n which have been used up to now as living rooms. However, the -TOV apartment room in Prague, which is already in itself not sufficient for any direction, is thus even more narrowed down. It was therefore our aim to bring the difficulties which had to be seen from this to the attention of the concerned places. Thus, as was desired, we were not able immediately to release the part of the cloister of the Cross inhabited by private parties. An identical statement against the likewise densely occupied by rental parties had also to be rejected. However, it is equally impossible to use the city administration's official buildings for other purposes, since the city itself suffers from a catastrophic lack of offices and the intended reorganization remains largely on paper, if not a spatial association of factually belonging, but today far apart, official posts would be possible. e.g. a correspondingly tight summary of the financial administration was partly prevented by the fact that no corresponding rooms in the town hall building can be assigned to the tax office. In this context, T may be referred again to the fact, that the city administration took over the Reichs- stve order administration, without this having brought with it corresponding rooms. If it were not possible to purchase some Jewish houses in the old town in the past years and to transform them into official buildings, then the city administration would have long since seen itself as an insoluble 53305