STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1639, sig. 109-4/1394 (damaged)

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English Translation

At the end of March 1st, Group II/2 of the Reiehsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia approached the Special Host'shaft Command with the request to assist in the application of about 6,000 wagons of food and 4,000 wagons seed potatoes. The delivery of potatoes in autumn 194l was only partly followed, while the rest was to be delivered in spring 1942. A large number of districts reported jedoeh that the rest of the pile deliveries could be made by the farmers nifty, because the cold waves of the last winter would have froze and depleted the large frozen sets of the wintered potato dureh. It was clear from the outset that the farmers had used the missing quantities of potatoes for animal feeding, and that they had been given the opportunity to do so, since they had not been able to take the measures described in point A.). In consultation with the Group Il/2 and the Central Statistical Offices, first in Moravia the political districts of Olmütz-Land and Prerau, and in Bohemia the districts of Budweis and Chotieborseh, which with their delivery posts are particularly strong in Rüekstande, have been overtaken by the inspection service of the Ministry of the Interior with the supervision of the German Criminal Police in such a way that 167 municipalities have been checked at random. Two of the overhauls had to be determined primarily whether the reasons given for the Niehtlieferung were valid and the collection of the stocks in storage, by the side the Eindruek was found among the kartoffel farmers, that now again, ./.