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

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- 7- Further concentration will have to take place in a similar way (radio, public authorities, etc.) While this will greatly restrict freedom of movement in the hotel industry, the hotel room is also currently a shortage that needs to be managed. There are considerable advantages to this in view of the events of war: not only is there safe accommodation for travellers who are important in war, but also the essential administrative work of the responsible authority is reduced to a minimum by this concentration. Other' measures. (T establishment of Stapo hotel strips, similar to the Wehrmacht hotel strips. These have two tasks : a) control of the caste on its activity, on compliance with the specified accommodation period, etc., bds b) control over the personal, which has been severely deteriorated due to war and' tends to be dishonest in every respect. 2) Establishment of emergency bed rooms in alleh A and B-hotels. For this emergency bed room, each hotel must provide a larger room in which lo - l5 beds - militarily arranged - have space. Are intended as alternative rooms for special requirements. 3) Combating the pest plague, which increases more and more and has already taken very good hotels. The reasons for this are: lack of cleaning agents, increased introduction by guests, permanent overcrowding of the hotels, which does not make it possible to remove and gas a number of rooms from the traffic, and above all the large lack of house staff for daily cleaning. To this extent negotiations with the working office I1 Mr. Abteilungsalgter o presented. Mya