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

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1 company Gebrüder L o c h m a n n , ROASOA candle and wax factory, COUNGE Prag I., Schalengasse 2. Büro do M00 baseleorb LU ptücs F inbuhmn thcen. Eing- - 6. MA/1942 Translation. AOU Prag, 29 April 1942. -teR neb edinonon ero To His Excellency 4Group leader Mr. State Secretary K.H. Frank, OLE P rag - Burg. We turn to höfl. vieder to Your Excellency with our abilities, since we know that we only find protection with your Excellencies and the Imperial Police. According to the accompanying document, we are supposed to apply for an exception by our economic group, but there it would be more difficult for us to do so, because one has learned of our spen- de ( 4 fur coats and about 30 woolen clothes) for the soldiers on the eastern front. Under the protection of the Great German Empire, thanks to our machinery, organizational capacity and work capacity (we have been working 80-lo0 hours per week for many years, i.e. also on Sundays and public holidays), we are able to take over many small companies including the employees and work exclusively for the Wehrmacht. The candles are not needed here anyway by Zi- vilisten, because here is introduced electric light everywhere and the comrades at the front rather need that lighting. Thanks to the protection and understanding of the German authorities we still have sufficient raw material and other necessary items available, so that we enough Wa- ©t..\101030/41