English Translation

St.M. IV M - 2/45g. Prague, 4 January 1945. maha 1945 1.) KR-FS: 4 Urgent! Present immediately! To Mr. Reichsminister Professor Speer, Pariserplatz 3. Dear comrade of the party Speer ! The supply of coal to the Bohemian-Moravian economy is very serious to me, because if the present state persists in a very short time, a substantial impairment of the most important armaments progranme must occur. As a result of the difficult coal situation in the Great German Reich, the main supply areas for the Protectorate (for coal: Moravian-Ostrava and Upper Silesia including Karwin and for lignite: Sudetengau) have received considerable conditions for deliveries to the rest of the region, which mean a corresponding lower supply of the Bohemian-Maurican economy. In addition, these deliveries considerably aggravate the very strained transport situation here, and the reductions in deliveries to foreign German lignite coal are so large that already this month certain measures were necessary to supply industry with this coal.