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

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- 10 - 30a MOV doiredetiezialtsy cer.dOd Bid air protection activity in all areas.TThe Pragerßd city administration has also perfected and expanded the expansion of existing facilities within the framework of the war possibilities with regard to the ALEDDVO DEREVISLEL. Above all, these are those of the local air protection line, e.g. In order to increase the impact of the individual air protection departments in the city administration, they were grouped into a uniformly aligned air protection office, at the head of which Dr. Portele has just been appointed Mag.Oberrat. The main task of the last months was to build new air shelters and to make them quickly in the cellars from house to house wall breakthroughs. However, it was necessary to obtain precise plans of the houses in which such conversions were to be carried out. However, because such plans do not exist for a large number of Prague houses, construction departments had to be significantly strengthened immediately within the framework of the mnox Air Protection Office, so that such plans could be developed where for about 15.00 houses in Prague. For this reason, I have allowed all somehow available engineers, technical assistants and draughtsmen to be deployed suddenly in the air protection office, so that it currently has 79 technical forces. Above all, the number of completed plans is due to those which could be realized far more clearly. .rel In this particular case, a decisive lack is revealed in the attempt to achieve security measures on the part of all parties. It is based on the catastrophic' difficulties nodoei with the procurement of the necessary building materials. While 400 projects require around one million bricks, 80.eee tons of cement and lo0 solid metres of wood, the competent authorities could only allocate an exact quarter of a metre, so that only l20 buildings can be completed per month. It would be highly necessary and desirable that these difficulties be overcome 53260