GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 565, sig. 110-4/413

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English Translation

40 -- 5 -- Despite all the difficulties involved in the construction of a factory kitchen in the fifth year of the war, I took the matter up and I can inform you, Minister and SS-Obergruppenführer, that the first factory kitchen is in Boskowitz one of the enterprises/fit and finished belonging to the Great German Reich and on Monday the 24th of May. the kitchen business comes into operation and this day the company's followers will be given a warm lunch for the first time. All the necessary food is there, there is the kitchen staff there, it is prepared for everything that it has to work. But besides and above that I did not overlook the actual operational tasks of a business manager. I was aware from the first reading of the trusteeship of this plant that this small medium-sized enterprise in a Czech province city will have to fulfil a very important war task in the near future, despite the fact that it only produces building fittings and construction fittings were always valid for a pure peace production. No and NO. Especially building fittings are a very important and urgent fault in the war and even more so in today's air wars, because without building closures one cannot place barracks and make them habitable and we already need barracks and will need more and more barracks in order to be able to place emergency apartments for the bomb-damaged people. Millions of building fittings will be necessary for this purpose and will be immediately tangible. Moreover, if similar plants in the Old Reich are mostly located in the air-dangerous area of the Reich and often have already suffered aviation damage, some of them have already completely failed, then the companies in the Protectorate will always be of considerable importance. But also for the production of .immediate war equipment is suitable such without further ado, only ma one has to stand on it- BatY1oh. I also immediately made contact with the appropriate equipment companies and I immediately succeeded in bringing in such orders and the orderers concerned were grateful for the fact that I provided them with the company BOSKO for these deliveries. Among them are also orders that fall into the "Jäger-Programme *. Of course, there are not yet overwhelming quantities and weights that the operation BOSKO could take up oil directly from war equipment, but the beginning was made, while by 4 years almost nothing of the kind was produced, which the "commission" was indeed independent of the product.