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

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16 2nd sheet on the activity report of the primator deputy for the period from 1/12.1941 to 31/1.1942. THE PRIMATOR-STELL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MAIN STATE PRAG. - The recruitment of many workers in the Sudeten area meant that coal production did not reach the desired level. Also the available car park was not always sufficient for obvious reasons. On the other hand, it cannot be overlooked that certain organisational shortcomings in the Seestadt power plants, on which the city of Prague depends almost exclusively, and the associated pit operations, as well as in the transport of Moravian Ostrava X Karwin coal, from where the gas works are supplied with high-value coal, have greatly obscured the overall situation. Nevertheless, through the timely intervention of all involved bodies, these shortcomings have been overcome at the last moment, but one lesson will have to be drawn from these events that the own production plants of the e-works of the capital Prague need a stronger expansion so that the dependence on Seestadtl in view of the overload is less sensitive. In addition, a thorough improvement in the energy supply of Prague will not be achieved until the power plant at the Stiechowitz dam and the pumped storage plant that is also under way there have been completed. Just before Christmas, the wool collection was also carried out in Prague. While for the German population of the city the NSDAP had taken on the entire organizational work, for the Czech population the urban institutions were used very strongly. The result of the collections on the Czech and German sides provides deep insights into the mental attitude of these sections of the population to the present world events. While the German population of Prague, with its hardly more than 35,000 heads, delivered to the hundred thousand pieces of warm things, the approximately thirty times as high Czech population of the city brought it only to 638.244 pieces. It is self-evident that in this gathering action also the municipality with its