NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 717, sig. 110-5/6 Page 54 · 54 of 79
GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 717, sig. 110-5/6
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- 4 - 42 apparatuses, however, bombard the neighborhoods indiscriminately and thus achieve a strong psychological effect. As the air alarms make up many hours a day, the effect is considerable. The traffic lines in eastern and central Hungary are so hit that economic transports are almost impossible. Many thousands of xmm wagons with goods intended for the Reich are no longer being transported away today, although the wagons, which bring down considerable German troop and material transports, go back empty to the Reich.Since the air raids also destroyed the big Budapest mills and many large food warehouses and since there is no coal in the city as a result of the ability of both Budapest iron railway bridges to operate, one looks very anxiously towards the winter in the bourgeois circles, since the communist tendency in the working class is very high. The impact of the bombings and the general situation on the economy is, to a large extent, that it can be found that almost nothing is produced and that the normal economic process is completely stagnating. Even the reconstruction of the farms affected is hardly progressing, since the workers are already ready in the early hours of the morning and are waiting for the alarm to come to safety.In the management of the large farms there is naturally nothing to do, so that at least 50 % of the employees are superfluous. As a result of the military situation, large circles are now ready to seek refuge in the rich, the greatest extent of advertising for employment in the Reich must be carried out. In addition, skilled workers and normal workers must be systematically withdrawn to many thousands, as they can no longer be used productively in Hungary today.