STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1951, sig. 109-6/43

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English Translation

2 - Leather wastes result in the most diverse uses for the purposes of our military industry. Thus, the other varieties of old and waste material not mentioned above can be explained as war= and vital raw materials. It is therefore a duty of the hour to show an even greater intensity in the recording of old and waste materials in times of war than in peacetime. The peace-based recording measures. The basis for the collection of waste and waste material is the decree of the Minister of Economics V 21 651/37 of 20 December 1937. This decree results from the order of the head of the Department of Waste and Waste Materials dated 3 March 1938 concerning the registration measures to be carried out for commercial purposes. This order and the implementing instructions given to it provide that the entire territory of the Reich is to be divided into compulsory collection districts. In the first third of each month, the obliged traders are required to regularly collect all household items and small-scale waste sites, while in the course of the next two-thirds of each months they are free to enter the collection, although a zone of 50 km, calculated from the nittel point of the dealer's home site, means the extreme limit of the activity of a collector. Thus, for a certain period of time of each month, the trade was limited to certain parts of a town or district, while for the rest of the month the free movement of trade was granted. In some cases there was even a surplus of waste and waste materials which could not be absorbed by the processing industry, because the processors could not keep up with the rapid increase in the amount of waste. The collecting activities carried out by the NSDAP, its divisions and affiliated associations were therefore almost exclusively required in the scrap sector. The Reichskommissar für Altmaterialverwertung (Reichskommission für Altstoffverwerterung) had a paper collection operation carried out at the end of 1937 for the purposes of a stronger recording and in the course of the years 1938 and 1939 a total of 3 scrap collection actions carried out with the help of the party's entrance. In the future, these gatherings would only cover scrap capture in the flat land and budgeting, even in times of peace, because the industry is unable to find its livelihood in the collection of this material, which is almost entirely composed of scrap metal. The recording in wartime The mob planning in the waste materials industry requires a fundamental change in the recording measures. This is due to the failure of labour (collectors) to be deducted from the waste material industry for military service or for other purposes of the work unit. Whereas it is also necessary to limit, geographically, the activity of the individual operator in this sector by restricting motor vehicle transport; whereas, consequently, the Mob plan provides that in each town and district one medium-sized trade operation is to be ensured; The undertaking was imposed on the company concerned to collect the group assigned to it regularly once a month, according to the same considerations as the order of the head of the waste and wastes department dated 3 March 1938. Cine's free activity is only permitted in times of war to the extent that it concerns the recording of the industrial seizure. The conversion to the war economy has taken place on a planned basis in the old materials sector. There were probably considerable difficulties in the first days of the war due to a lack of mob=preparation for the security of the industry.