English Translation

h/ The Commander of the Security Police and SD Prague, 23 December 1942. - Economic Special Command - XXX Deka X0K 1, 704 05 I1.C.M.v.Weberstraße 7 Tgb. Nr. B. d. S. - Va 13162/42 -. Please respond to the above sentence and date. To the W group leader, Secretary of State K.H. Fra n k in P r a g IV Czernin-Palais. Subject: The result of the experience gained in carrying out the checks on cereals and the provisional outcome of the action. After preliminary results of the grain control action and after receipt of the reports of experience of the Kommandos of the German Criminal Police, which I have used for over-checks, the already by the leader of the "Fliegenden Kommando" for Bohemia, criminal comissar L a c h, in his report of ll.12. In 1942, it was concluded that 1.) the protectorate control bodies used did not proceed with the necessary prudence and willingness to operate and that, therefore, it should not be possible to find significant hidden grain stocks and 2.) the cereal growers of the protectorates should possess unrecorded crop yields which are not yet significant. While the over-control units of the German criminal police in Moravia and the criminal police */ \rM5a/48 455