THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 628, sig. 110-4/476

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NV - 2 - verdige Marktverbandes. However, since the Deutsche Landzentrale is also commissioned by the district management in Brno to supply the Nsv distribution points established for the supply of the Germans in Brno, the district administration in Brno was entitled to the entire quantity of vegetables stored at the regional headquarters. When the permanent market association on 8.1.1944 instructed the German Land-zentrale to load 80 t of vegetables to Moravian-Ostrava, the head of the district office, Michler, prohibited the implementation of this loading instruction in the company of district head Folta of the German land headquarters. This has seriously endangered the supply of vegetables for the Mährisch-Ostreau armaments centre. The influence of the district management in Brno on the there. Wholesale trade is so intense that a personal intervention of my department head of food and agriculture was necessary to ensure the implementation of the instruction of the market association. I am sure that you too will emphatically approve of the abuses by Folta, who is totally unacceptable from the point of view of an orderly supply economy. In addition, I would be grateful if, in order to avoid further inconsistencies, all party services were instructed to refrain from their own supply measures in the future and not to interfere with the measures of the market associations led by my agents. HeilHitler!