GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 579, sig. 110-4/427

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4-Ogruf. 16. November 1943. 1/50T/6151*4 W 1943 17. 1.) To Mr. Reichsminister and head of the Reich Chancellery Dr.Lammere, Feldquartier. Very venerable Mr. Imperial Minister ! In terms of concentration of the war economy I refer to your Echreiben from 2l.9.d.Js. - sign Rk. l0545 B and inform that with Reichs Minister Speer on his Wunech on 8.lo.d. Js. The result of the discussion can be summarised as follows: Reichsminister Speer, in carrying out his duties after the decree of the Führer on the concentration of the war economy of the 2.9.d.Js. in the protectorate - and this is the case that the entire correspondence of his ministry is exclusively conducted with the German Ministry of Bohemia and Moravia, but not directly with the Autonomous Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour in Prague. On the one hand, the Chairman of the Armaments Commission for Bohemia and Moravia and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour on the other, there is no change in the current state of affairs.