STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2464, sig. 109-12/111

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$S_{ ma Munich, DDAC in December 1939 the Saupt administration of the DDAC DDAC-Acbeit in the Keiege As a erfter Vorbote of the war, a Jprunghaften Knappung in der Brennftoffverforge in the primeval period of the year was swept in, which overtaken many drivers. We would have liked to have informed non-referred members of this on time, but for obvious reasons we have rejected a Jolchen publication and asked ourselves to do so, by means of daily telephonic round-the-clock questions at unreferent places of business. In order to be able to meet the innumerable individual questions, which stormed us, in all parts of the empire. - Diefer in good time a registered "force-off proof" Jowie numerous mediations. pre-prache with the authorities have made the DDAC members at that time the home maturity with the motor vehicle possible. With the outbreak of war, the motor vehicle industry - and thus also a part of the former activity - had come to the still ground. - But Jchon succeeded in changing all the DDAC's apparatus, which was divided over the Reichsgebiet, to the new necessities and works after a few days. Some DDACs were launched by Jofort under the leadership of relevant authorities for motor vehicle clearances, gasoline= and tyre distribution; local DDAC organisations provided driving readiness for vital purposes; others worked with the German Red Cross and helped to clear the areas threatened by the war; here, the DDAC local groups helped to bring the harvest; there, repatriating drivers were looked after, as Jeiten's unfarer public DDAC Gaue still enjoys the extensive help of the DDA, the baltenGerman drivers returning to the Reich. Soon the wave of new struggles and decrees, through which the motor trade had to be adapted to the needs of the war, had been swept in. Restrictions on the use of motor vehicles, their confiscation by the Wehrmacht, the possibilities of their free movement, the research methods for burning. Substance and tires, new tax= and copyright issues, and many other Jchwer-related interventions in the field of road transport presented us with new, big tasks, for which we were working on the "DDAC-Wars= wirtJchafts=Dienft的 Jchufen". - For two months now, "KWD" has been regularly approaching all DDAC officials, the DDAC syndizis and the more remote local groups and enables Jie to provide practical assistance to every DDAC member (whether he can use Jein motor vehicle or has had to leave the wheel or leave it) not only in all areas of the war economy of motoring, but also in many cases in the Council of Jonders. Thus, the "KWD", which Jich rallch introduced and proved, has become a fundamental and uniform basis of work in all regions of the empire. It is understandable that the transformation of the Kraftfahet there and there led to Jchweren, sometimes unjustified hardships for individual drivers. In the case of Jolchen, the DDäC has always condemned the competent authorities by means of pre-languages and submissions and will continue to make every effort in the future to help legitimate objections by non-members to success. - We have just prepared a separate paper for this purpose, which deals with Jolcher cases in common with non-Juriftifchen headquarters. The "DDAC War Survivors' Fuerforge", which represents a contemporary extension of the Jo's often proven DDAC comradeship aid, gives Joll the assurance to all the less well-off in the field of Jtehenden DDAC members that we will also intervene helpingly when it is necessary to alleviate the economic hardship of the survivors caused by the death of the breadwinner. - No less than 95 DDAC comrades unfortunately have Jchon jett's life in front of the enemy; in 91 cases Jette already has the "DDAC war survivors Fürlorge". Unfere Technifche department, whose main area of work before the war was the bulk of vehicle surveillance and technical advice, placed for me at the beginning of the war Jofort in the service of the maintenance and care of abandoned vehicles of inferior members. - Above all, it was the Great Fatadt roads of that force. In order to ensure proper accommodation of these vehicles in garages, a study was carried out on the public roads and places in which they preferred any other storage of their vehicles.