English Translation

60 - 4 with its important armaments industry must absolutely be avoided in the interest of the German war economy. He therefore immediately gave Secretary of State Backe the instructions to immediately lift the fat barrier for the protectorate. The further fat deliveries should first be charged to the 16.0oot grant, which the REM itself had considered necessary and possible. In addition, Secretary of State Körner asked for the details to be discussed with State Secretary Backe, and assured once again that he would strongly support the position of the St. Reichs protector at the Reichsmarschall. The same was true of the Flieger Bodenschatz, who, from the point of view of the works of the Arms Union which he supervised, argued in the Protectorate that the diet in Bohemia and Moravia as a part of the Empire must be assimilated to the nutritional conditions in the Old Kingdom. At the end of the discussion, Reichsprotector handed over a memorandum on "The position of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the German war economy" and remarked that he would soon present the matter to the Lord Reichsmarschall himself. II. Following the discussion I, a meeting with Secretary of State Backe took place in the REM, which had attracted his advisers for the supply of the occupied territories as well as temporary ministerial director Walter as head of the trade policy department. Reichsprotektor made, more in detail, the same remarks as in the preliminary discussion. State Secretary Backe immediately declared Be- - 5