THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 740, sig. 110-5/29

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- 13 _- calms strongly. It is very annoying if party services seek to intervene and threaten the business leaders with measures if they do not provide their foreign-people with the urgently needed clothing, underwear and footwear. As a result, the economic offices are forced into situations which can only be remedied in such a way that the local population has to step back behind the foreign people. Furthermore, there is a lack of kitchen stoves, furniture and potions. The Luditz Land Council again requests the addition of material for micro-repairs, such as nails, soldering tin, lime, cement, wood and boards. The district councillor of Tachau complains about the absence of brooms and brushes, everywhere those who are dependent on better night lighting for professional reasons or due to age are missing the flashlight batteries, while the youth are sufficiently available. This causes quite rightly the biggest annoyance. In this situation, the idea is everywhere to set up repair shops of all kinds. In the administrative district, there are already several such workshops in operation, of which 2 are larger: the Gottschald & Co. laundry repair shop in Neudek and the tailoring shop set up by the Falkenau county. The well-known shoe shops of the company Bata in the Protectorate work to the full satisfaction, but by far not all repairs can be carried out, so that e.g. in the Falkenau circle is thought of the manufacture of a shoe shop. Also the exchange of objects, as a look into the daily newspapers shows, becomes increasingly important. The existing Schuhcus exchange stations will soon be followed by further exchanges. It will also be impossible to obtain and exchange other replacement items from this place. Coal supply is satisfactory. Only in the Mies district it is not sufficient. Dcr Landrat describes this deficiency as the most atmospheric burden of its circle. He referred to the presence of 4,00 bomb victims and to the fact that many farmers had not applied at all for the allocation of coal, because they were used to firing wood; some of them had until recently had so great supplies that they could have been able to endure during the war. According to the Landrat, the additional continuum of 9.60o t is also inadequate and therefore urgently needed for help. In the district of Bischofteinitz there is no black coal. In representation: Nile.