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The Reichswirtschaftsminister Berlin C 2, 15 March 1944 III EM - 201 342/44 Neue Königstr. 27-37 Tel.: 52 00 18 Please indicate this business address and the subject matter of further letters GEGA To the German Minister of State 19.MRZ.1944V 001712 for Bohemia and Moravia Prague Deutsches Stactamabletert pun nou6 0 Czeminpalais Betr.i Safeguarding the work input for export productions (export certificates). Your letter of 9.8.43 V/1 - 7585/43 - My reply of 18.9.43 - V Ld 12/207 834/43 Your order, on the basis of which the export certificates issued by the examination offices of the Old Kingdom are no longer recognized by the labour forces of the Protectorate, has repeatedly led to ideas on the part of German trade, which for decades has sold products of the protectorate abroad. These trading companies are afraid of losing their old business relationships and being displaced by the protectorate's trading companies. As you informed me at the time, the reason for your order was the intensification of the employment situation in Bohemia and Moravia as a result of the increasing transfer of labour forces to the rest of the Reich.However, I do not think it would be appropriate for this general rule to cause disadvantages to the trading companies of the Old Reich by the fact that the production secured by export certificates of the Prager pre-testing personnel can be transferred to work in the future only by commercial firms of the Protectorate abroad. Orders from trading firms in the Old Kingdom for the manufacture of typical protectorate products are also not transfer orders in the usual sense. I would ask you, in principle, to apply the same exception to this, which you grant to trading firms in the Sudetengau region, whose business relations with the manufacturers have been in place for a long time, especially since the volume of production in question is negligible in relation to the overall production of the protectorate. A letter from the Gauwirtschaftsberater of the NSDAP, Gauleitung Hamburg, dated 11.2.44 - H I a/ G 287/44 hh/69-9M C/0320