English Translation

The tendency to sell scarce food at higher prices is particularly evident among smaller traders and is not sufficiently prevented by price authorities or controls. There is no indication from the buyers, since larger groups of the population pay the prices, which are often very high, without complacency and even with scarce goods. The suffering sufferers here are the strata of the populace, which have only a limited and usually too small income. As an example, the case of an employee of the Business Group for Wholesale and Foreign Trade, Prague I, Königshoferstr.. This man, about 40 years as, receives a monthly salary of RM l25.- , from which he remains net RM 5,- after deduction of all taxes and contributions. This is so low for the present conditions in Prague that it necessarily results in a significant restriction and reduction of the cost of living. The danger arising from these conditions is that even those members of these sections of the population, who were so far friendly to the new conditions and Nazi views, become misguided and feel disappointed and turn away from these views again, in the end the Czech authorities are not held responsible, but the "National Socialist German sovereignty", which was tacitly expected to prevent such abuses. - In economic terms, one is very bitter about the allocations of the Bohemian Moravian Association in fruit and vegetables, which are completely inadequate. Housewives are forced to shop under the hand at usury prices. Onions, garlic and cranberries, the allocation of which is to be carried out by this association, were until now almost nir gends in the shops ku. (Prague) In T a b_o_r, the mood of the Czech population is bad, because of the difficult food situation and the lack of potatoes, flour and bread. Especially in working-class circles it is more and more frequently utterances that the continuation of such hardship would no longer be possible to maintain the previous work performance. In the poorer strata much is complained about creeping trade and asserts that Gutsitu- ents for money today would get everything and suffered no need. The dissension of these circles is particularly directed against butchers and farmers, as well as against the Czech authorities, who are accused of not opposing the trade in sneakers with the necessary sharpness, but on the contrary, even by buying at usury prices, they support the trade. Throughout the Czech population there are repeated statements that, although enough food - 6 -