STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1931, sig. 109-6/23

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4Laciee PEC DMBO has specialized in the rest of the Reich, it was useful to transfer the training and examination procedure to the NSKK. In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, however, aid for the conversion to generator gas drive is not given. The vehicle owner has his own interest in not losing his money spent on the generator by good treatment and strives to train the driver on his own initiative. In contrast to the rest of the Reich, the generating companies and workshops have sufficient skilled personnel to train and train drivers, and there are also sufficient official examination officers who have taken a total of some 5 000 to 6 000 tests. I would ask you to consider whether it would be appropriate, in this situation, to bind valuable German forces by taking over the training and testing that has been carried out so far by Czechs, or whether it might not be more appropriate to use the NSKK in future, in agreement with the Road Transport Group and the Country Commissioner for Bohemia and Moravia for Generators, only for the supervision of the training of drivers and for training of examination officers. This would also have the advantage that the certificates already issued by the examiners on the acceptance of the driver's test would not be replaced by new NSKK certificates, at least 6 000 certificates, the issuing of which would involve a considerable administrative effort. A subsequent examination of the drivers responsible for the management of generator vehicles is not considered, as in the rest of the Reich. (Decision of the Minister of Transport of 20 June 1940 - K 21. 1l 600/40 - 2.) Monitoring of the total carriage of goods by road. 10 613/40 - also does not apply to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It has been sent to me in the same way.