STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1825, sig. 109-5/53 Page 11 · 11 of 37
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1825, sig. 109-5/53
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4 + On the l5.l. in Brno-Königsfeld again 62 German-language flyers were issued "Why do the political leaders still rot in the hinterland? To the front with them!". 3.) News from the area of the economy: In Brno it is complained that vegetables and fruit are now mostly ërfrozen oror rotted on the market and that pensioners and other people without employment stood around the markets and there happen to arrive there by accident, chickens, fish and the like. At the moment, the working population bought up such foods, whereas almonds, raisins, cheese, etc. were only sold to good acquaintances in shops and, since most of the businesses were in Czech hands, mainly to Czechs. + In the steel plant of the Poldihütte in Kladno, the night broke to the l6.l. a fire, which could soon be extinguished again. There is a suspicion of sabotage. + On the l4.l. after 9 p.m. a main building of a German belonging furniture factory Drucker A.G. burned down in Butschowitz (OLB Brno). Hundreds of finished furniture were burned, which could not be removed because of the transport barrier, as well as valuable and partly new machinery, the damage is so far damaged on l,2 million RM, the cause of the fire is still unexplained, but sabotage does not seem to be ruled out. In agricultural circles in the Blatna District (OLB Klattau), an order from the Protoktorat government called for the cultivation of sormer barley, where it has not been so far, to be greatly astonished, since this cereal species did not promise any yield in the climatic and soil relations there. The Jockel textile factory in Gumpolds (OLB Kolin) had to dismiss 45 textile workers as a result of a reduction in the allocation rate. Any support or other accommodation of the workers has not yet been provided. Nor does this provide any information at the employment office as to who pays support or whether another accommodation is provided or possible. On the part of the company, too, no corresponding instruction was given. This procedure awakens the appearance as if one wanted to leave the workers deliberately in the unclear, in order then to be able to blame the Germans. The whispering propeganda already spreads "You see, the Germans are helpless". In Hlinsko (OLB Pardubitz) it was observed that valuable drugs were purchased by Jews in order to be equipped with drugs during a possible relocation, this circumstance is said to have prevailed so that today it is no longer possible for pharmacies to administer sci special drugs to Aryans. In the exhibition of the recipes Jewish doctors, such as in Hlinsko Dr.Prager, be very generous, Waf