English Translation

93 - 12 - the aim of a planned integration of the German forces into the German south-east work. The activity in this area takes place primarily in the form of a close cooperation with the German cooperatives. Occasionally, the Springmeese l94l organized a large meeting of the South-Eastern Europe Society, at which the question of the south-eastern Europe cooperatives (with special consideration of the people's Germans) was presented in detail. Moreover, the South East Europe society does not make its activity on the ethnic territory as far as possible appear. 5.) Office for Agricultural Policy of the Gauleitung Donau and Landes-Bauernschaft Donauland. In cooperation with these agencies, a group "Food and Agriculture" was founded at the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft. This group has come into contact with almost all the relevant departments (Official Office for Agricultural Policy of Gauleitung Vienna, Landesnährungs amt Donauland, Donauländischer Raiffeisenverband etc.), which usually expand to a firm cooperation. The group is increasingly being used by the central authorities (in particular by the Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft und seine Reichsstellen as well as the Federal Foreign Office) to provide information and carry out certain tasks. In addition to the fundamental questions of quota, foreign exchange, tariff and transport policy as well as the production and market policy in the south-east, the practical work of the group is primarily concerned with the use of the companies in the southeast. In order to strengthen the economic strength of the individual importers, the establishment of Community companies was encouraged and carried out. Societys of this kind have already been founded on - 13