STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2343, sig. 109-11/145

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35 - 8 but clearly recognize the causes of the wrong labour input. Thus, e.g. the manager of the company Kaltenbach and Vogt, a company for Fine mechanics in Potsdam on the remark that he could now come from the protectorate: "I am covered with labor and can continue to be very good working French and French, so that I no longer need Czechs. In a larger armaments company, a trans port of about 30,000 Czechs arrived.The technical staff of the company stated that he had no use for the arrived Chechnya at best;the best would be if they were to go back home individually.This advice was supposed to have been followed by those Czechs who had money for the return trip. The rest were temporarily housed in a shed. Klimecká, who was employed in the hat shop in Prague, was engaged in an aircraft factory in Oranienburg. From there she was sent back after three weeks, because she had too little work for her, as she herself said. Also in the Hermann Göring plants in Vienna, according to an unaudited report, 200 - 400 workers are always employed, because of a lack of suitable employment. On arrival at the new place of employment, many of the workers who were obliged to enter the Reich were given the advice to seek employment in private enterprises if they could not be accommodated in the companies assigned to them.The use of skilled workers as day-labourers or the use of special workers as services which could be performed by women or trained forces also reinforce the Czechs in the opinion that, as is usually claimed, there is no progressive disorganization in Bohemia and Moravia, but in the Reich. For the wrong use of labour, examples are given below, which not only cause bitterness among the workers obliged to work, but also in the whole of the Czech population, and to a large extent -9-