GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 576, sig. 110-4/424

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M -3- is to be left to a large extent under consideration of the respective local circumstances. In Prague, the permit remains with the Ministry of Full Information. The procedure is simplified by the fact that the individual applications are submitted according to form and are delivered daily by the hotel lines collected. (b) A substantial contingent of permanent tenants shall be provided by the Wehrmacht. A statistics drawn up for the beginning of December 1983 showed in Prague a total number of l2lo rooms occupied by permanent tenants. Of this, the Wehrmacht and Waffen- 277 rooms, i.e. 322 WB almost a quarter, and essentially in A and B-Hotels. Dlese 277 permanent tenants were composed as follows: 96 officers in the range up to the captain, 44 staff officers, 66 officers in officer rank and medical officers, 7l non-commissioned officers and husbands. These figures may have increased by now. According to the competent Wehrmacht services, it has not been successful; in particular, the suggestion to merge at least the younger officers into two has not yet been complied with. To this extent, a letter from the Minister of State to the authorized officer of the Wehrmight is required. c) The vast majority of permanent renters are made up of officials and employees of the public authority/and large companies. These people live in furnished rooms in normal times, at most in pensions, since the stay means a heavy financial burden for them. They are willing to move out immediately if a room is proved to them. However, the city is currently not able to provide even one. approximately sufficient number of suitable rooms. Although it has determined in the action against large apartments approx. looo rooms, but must these rooms for the special