STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1902, sig. 109-5/130

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/55 The removal of Czech workers from the Protectorate is thus carried out to the extent that further requirements of skilled workers cannot be fulfilled without seriously disrupting the most important war equipment in the protectorate. In addition, it should be remembered that since the spring of this year, 2,806 companies have been closed down in the Protectorium on the occasion of the "Concentration of the Economy" action, i.e. 23% of all companies and enterprises, so that no further reduction of power can be achieved with this means. In order to keep the labour camp and the Nerkfrieden in this area, which is so important for the Reich pebthically, and to bring the necessary economic measures of the Keichsministérs Speer as well as the employment measures of a special authorized Sauckel into line with the primary political measures, a "central government staff" was formed at the authority of the Reichsprotector as the top economic policy head in Protektorat under the direction of the State Secretary. These include the key economic factors (the Ninister for Economic