English Translation

In general, the measures of shielding the empire were discussed by the price movements in the occupied and protected territories. In this context, the protectorate with its stable price structure is considered to be the empire territory. The reduction of the import from the Occupied Territories should be carried out in such a way that the reduction by the Reich is carried out and the occupied territories constantly refund the amounts of the reduction necessary for their deliveries to the Reich from 1.9.1943. The measure of course also applies to the protectorate as part of the empire, but the explicit decision is still lacking. The Department of Finance is agreed. The system of the Reichswirtschaftsmi- nister is not working well, according to which a levy is introduced for export deliveries at prices above the domestic level, which is designed in such a way that the exporter is interested in further price increases. As a result, deliveries to the Occupied Territories are being driven ever higher in price terms. In the RfPr's view, it would be more correct to charge the importer a percentage above the domestic price and to collect all additional revenue, which would leave the interest in further price increases in deliveries to the occupied territories. - The Supreme Prize Authority has decreed that at most the General Government and the Occupied Eastern Territories may be delivered at the domestic price. The scheme is described as exemplary and its creation for the rest of the Empire is considered. It has the advantage for the Protectorate that any chain trade with export-determined goods in the protectorate and unwinned goods drain into the general government and the occupied eastern areas is avoided. The activity of the collectors from these areas is paralysed. In general, the occupied territories blame the purchases of the Wehrmacht and the German authorities for the price increases. These often buy at excessive prices, which creates resentment in the population and a bad model for the economy. The tug order to be able to take the authorization for Wehrmacht members into the Reich as much as they can carry is also unfavourable. F i s c h b ö c k is of the opinion that crew costs in the occupied territories cannot be held responsible for price increases, they are nothing else than war expenses, which the Reich also bears without the prices rising: if collection and management are sufficient, price increases can be avoided. The rising circulation of notes is also not decisive for the free increases. In most inflation countries, the price increases are stronger than the inflation increases and often are in relation to the price ./.