STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1793, sig. 109-5/21 Page 43 · 43 of 67
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1793, sig. 109-5/21
English Translation
3 E2 2-) Behaviour of the Czech police bodies and authorities Nothing has changed in this behaviour. a) Czech military personnel The appearance of the protectorate force is impeccable. 3.) Economic situation. The further shortage of fats and butter has led to considerable dissension within the Czech population. It was expected that the upcoming holiday would take place because of a greater division of these most powerful foods, especially since it was said that the population of the Old Kingdom would be allocated 1/2 pounds of butter per week, while in the Protectorate only 35 gr of butter was distributed per head. Here, too, the German women suffering from the meiat are the ones who had their tribe = cards stamped by German merchants, who in turn bought their goods in large part only from German wholesalers in the Old Reich before the upheaval. Due to regulations, it is allegedly forbidden for companies in the old Reich to deliver their products to the Protectorate. For example, there are German shops that have not been able to give their customers one gr butter or artificial fat for 3 weeks. The introduction of the dress card is very much welcomed by the poorer population. Before the introduction, the wealthier bought indiscriminately and at any price and drove them up considerably. Before the shops it had assumed such proportions that even traffic = disturbances were caused and the police had to intervene. Now the sale has inevitably been steered back into quieter paths. Nevertheless, wage and salary improvements carried out almost everywhere, the prices are still not in a healthy relationship with them. It is to be hoped that through the guided sale also the pricing will take on a normal form=. For the commander The chief of the staff : e.g. Send l. For accuracy: Aapern/ Oberleutnant d. Sch. Vertriebs