English Translation

General Department of Forestry Prague, 3 February 1945. v/4 - 251/45 inisterarnt Original with 1 appendix - 5 feB. 1945 Mr. Ministerial Councillor Dr. G i e s after taking note with following note : The remarks on page 3 are not to be regarded as politically biased. In the presentation it is stated that on 16 December l939 a snowfall disaster passed over the forest seat of the estate Lana. As a result of this natural disaster inevitably 300.043 fm had to be struck in 6 years, while the factory only provides for an annual impact of 17.869 fm. The author of the information report then compares the use of calamity at a rate of 300.043 fm to the average annual average impact of 178.690 fm and thus calculates an over-use of 121.353 fm. This over-exploitation is not due to the annual wood handling, but rather to the natural disaster. The word "catastrophe" chosen by the author in your blue paragraph is not a criticism of the general economic management on the basis of the war conditions, but would have sounded usefully "natural disaster", i.e. snowfall disaster. Since these natural events mainly affected the middle age classes of forest populations, in the future the time will come when mature woods will be present in the forest estate Lana only to a small extent. The author has this by the sentence, "..... but mainly due to damage to the represented age groups in the future", expressed. Thus, the statements are correctly judged from a purely factual forest-specific point of view. Sueng Mmlist Llit St.M. NN-65b/44