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

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14 - 13 calms strongly. cs is very annoyed when party services seek to intervene and threaten the business leaders with measures if they do not provide their foreign-people with the much-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 foreign people. Furthermore, kitchen stoves, furniture and potions are missing. Luditz's Landrat again requests the allocation 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 lack the flashlight batteries, while the youth are sufficiently available. That is quite rightly the biggest nuisance. Štreichholz lack of wood prevails in Krcise Neudek, with this situation everywhere the idea of setting up repair workshops of all kinds emerges. In the government district already several such workshops are in operation, of which 2 are larger: the laundry repair-anstalt Gottschald & Co. in Neudeck and the tailoring-works established by the district craftsmanship Falkenau. 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 construction of a shoe shop. Also the exchange of objects, as a look into the daily newspapers shows, increases in importance. The existing shoe swaps will soon be followed by more. Furthermore, it will not be possible for other replacements to be collected and exchanged by the same 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 explained this lack to the presence of 4.ooc bomb victims and to the fact that many farmers had not applied at all for the allocation of coal, because they were used to burning wood. Some of these farmers had until recently had so large stocks that they could have expected to survive during the war. Also the additional continuum of 9,600 t, the Landrat claims, is insufficient and therefore urgently needed help. In the district of Bischofteinitz lacks black coal. On behalf: JriRe!