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

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English Translation

For reasons of control, I have received from all five companies a decade of reports on the admission and departure of foreign currencies, the figures of which are available to the National Bank and are used by it for control purposes. Furthermore, I have a monthly written report from the head of the SNB's export control on the export relations in the Protectorate, with special regard to the 5 large companies, which also provides information on export arrears. With regard to foreign exchange audits, it should be noted that these have so far been carried out by the audit section of the financial management. Last year, al-lerdings was excluded from using these commissions with the five companies. with German officials -- has also been withdrawn so far because the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board of Škoda, Brünner Waffen, Witkowitz and Poldi-Hütte deutsché members are significantly represented. If, however, the establishment of such a revision commission would seem desirable, it could be formed in a short time. On the receipts by Bata in the period from 16 March to 31 December 1939 and on the level of the export balances, broken down by the number of exports of goods to the free country in 1939, 2/ the payments received during the same period, 3/