GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 717, sig. 110-5/6

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- 7 - 20 Another problem of considerable importance is the question of the employment of Hungarian forces in the Reich. In the economic officer of Reides, there is a position which, above all, communicates technicians and bottleneck workers partly with their relatives after the Reich, but in the generous manner necessary today, nothing is done on the German side. It is clear that there are thousands of people willing to work, provided that the opportunity is offered to go to the Reich with their family. In this case, the Hungarian authorities too have an understanding. known that in a debate the Minister of Supply Jurczek expressed willingness to release the necessary quantities of food per year for the Reich for workers and their relatives who go to the Reich /Stubaf Schmidt deals with this question with the RSHA/. The news from the territories occupied by the Russians are very sparse and often very contradictory. The Bolsheviks took individual Hungarians through the lines to make propaganda for themselves with diésen people. Thus, members of the province suddenly appear in Budapest and tell in circles of their relatives that the Russians, for example, had the schooly reopened in individual occupied cities / Sueged/ and that life continues normally. However, from Debreczen city and from Debreczen area, news is available that the Russians are exercising a terror regime here. Rumours are spread that where they find resistance, they also act brutally against the population, but where they move in without a fight, behave disciplined. However, from individual villages already occupied and cleared by the Russians there are very concrete reports of the Bolsheviks' actions against the civilian population. Hungarian propaganda, however, does not use these reports and also in the press very little is reported about them, since it is said that the people do not want to be disturbed by such reports. In the occupied territories, the pengö is partially stamped and exchanged for rubles, where l00