STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2269, sig. 109-11/70

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t2 CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRY FOR OILS AND MAHREN Prague, 21 May 1942. Dr.Min/Pa-4424 THE PRESIDENT In reply please repeat signs To the and number of objects Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia , office of the Gtaalsfafteteäe z.H.d. Herrn Oberregierungsrats at the Feidypol .oe Dr.Giess, in Böhmen and Mahsen. Eing.: 23.MAI1942 PregIV.. Czerninpalais. Subject: Concentration company Gebrüder Lochmann, Prague I. Reference : Your letter of 13 May 1942. With the conclusion of the files made available to me, I allow myself to present the following opinion on the above matter: the task and aim of concentration is to achieve the best possible exploitation and processing of the available raw materials under the most extensive saving of coal, labour, technical aids and auxiliary raw materials, whereby the civil sector must be restricted in the interests of reducing the production of arms, as far as this is possible while maintaining the supply of oil. In the chemical sector, there is only a very limited quantity of raw materials, for which a small proportion of the farms involved are required to process. By summarizing production in a few farms, their capacity is fully utilized and thus the highest profitability is achieved in these farms. In the case of Gebrüder Lochmann, candle and wax factory in Prague, the following considerations led to the proposal for a silence: The companies belonging to these sectors / p. ©.X1.3-114b/42