Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 634, sig. 110-4/482 (damaged)

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Prague, 29 September 1942. b/ The position of the Protectorate of Böhnen and Moravia in the German war economy. The Protectorate Bohemia and Kähren is not an occupied area. By the Führerorlass of 16, Marz 1939 it is an inseparable part of the Great German Reich, which preserves its sovereignty and supervisory powers by the Reich Protector. Oiese state-law position makes it possible to use both the commercial economy as well as the landownership of the Protectorate for the war tasks of the empire fully. Öie commercial Birtschaft vurde to the most part on weapons and nunition production unscathed. In agriculture the guarantee of the production from own plaice was applied. In addition, the aim is to remove agricultural products to the empire and to limit the supply of fats by the empire to the frotektorate, so far as it cannot produce them itself for the purpose of feeding its population, the frotectorate had previously announced a surplus of sugar by means of corresponding exchange not to cover the bordering countries. Oie Wehrwirtschaft in Böhmen und Kähren ninnt houte