English Translation

98 - 3 - Reichsminister Speer then gave an explanation of the move of consumer goods production to the Protectorate and to the occupied territories. Minister of State Frank stated that he considered this idea to be correct and welcomed the plan. On the question of the Arms Inspector General Hernekamp because of the withdrawal of members of the class 1924 from the local armaments industry, Reichsminister Speer made it clear that the agreement between the Armaments Inspectorate Prague and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour had to be applied, according to which only 20 % of the year's action may be exempted. All other members of the 1924 class were ruthlessly withdrawn from the armaments industry, however, against a replacement position on the part of the employment administration of the Protectorate. In response to objections by the Military Inspector in Prague that the most important armaments units in the Protectorate might suffer, Otschef Haupt= Head of Service Saur noted that these withdrawals must be possible without endangering the production of arms, as in the rest of the Reich area entire vintages had been convened to the Wehrmacht, Reichsminister Speer pointed out that the vintage campaign in 1924 had to be carried out indistinctly in order to have the desired success. This is a binding commitment to Generalfeldmar=sound State Secretary Milk. Adolf raised the question whether, as in the rest of the Reich region, the food supply = packages can be given to intellectually creative workers of the production industry, this affirmed Reichsminister Speer and agreed with the proposal of the Minister of State Frank, that the distribution of these packages should be carried out in principle without regard to ethnicity, About the procedure in the individual=n Armamentsobmann Dr.Adolf should discuss with the responsible head of the office. In conclusion, Reichsminister Speer made a statement that he was working on the general and fundamental aspects of the