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

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66 /LUb.V1-30 10-J0 Commissioner - Cereals. BG 6/44. Prague, January 6, 1944. To Mr. NN. German Minister of State 0 for Bohemia and Moravia Division VI, Prague _ _ — _ _ − − − Betr.: Loading of filling bags for seed cereals. Reference: Letter from 6 January 1944 - VI-30lo-80. As the supply of raw materials required for the protection of the environment. Sack quantities according to our information are exclusively carried out by the Reich, the sacks mentioned in the letter of the. Pommer's main cooperative are nothing more than a provision of production capacity for the Reich but not the use of raw materials due to the Protectorate. A surplus of sacks in the protectorate cannot therefore be spoken of in the case of such deliveries to the Reich. Moreover, there are no special grain sacks, but the sacks of the same quality, which are used for all cereals. Whereas the use of new sacks for sowing grains as far as possible is concerned, whereas they are later generally used for the transport of cereals and for the bottling of other goods; whereas it is not possible to use a shortage of sacks in the cereals sector to the extent that it has generally been possible to load grain in bulk into wagons; Sack loading to processing plants takes place only when the sacks are prepared by the recipient. The need for new sacks per year for the cereals sector can be justified here due to a lack of