English Translation

3 Security Service of the Reichsführer-4 Prag-Bubentsch, the 17.1.1944 SD section Prague Sachsenweg Ce22 Ceett III D - SA 315/1 To the Minister Office nlsteramt of the German State Ministry of Bohemia and Moravia Ministerial Council 4-Standartenführers Dr. G i e s , Eing.: 20. JAN. 1944 Prague Betr.: Difficulties in the trade with Switzerland Vorg.: There. Injunction of 12.12.1943. Notes: 3 original. According to the previous regulation, the Protectorate was a subquota carrier of the Reich's total foreign exchange quota for the exchange of goods with Switzerland. The difficulties in the German-Swiss economic negotiations, which have not yet been resolved, meant that the existing agreement would only last one month if none of the partners raised Binwanden. For this reason, the central executives have gone beyond issuing sub-quotas, but instead have to control and approve the foreign exchange permits for Switzerland centrally, in order to exempt foreign exchange only for those commodities which are necessarily exempt from the b.w. St. M.vM - 14/44 141 ESN