English Translation

Group II/2 Prague, 26 June 1942. Food and Agriculture Strictly confidential ! PV L 1.) Note. Subject: Discussion at the Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft on 23 and 24 June 1942 on the supply situation in Great Germany and in the Occupied Territories. He clearly pointed to the seriousness of the difficult supply situation in the cereals and fat area in the coming marketing year. Cereals. According to the current estimates, the unmet need for bread cereals in 1942/43 amounts to about 3.8 million tonnes. A reduction of the current ration should not take place under any circumstances. It is estimated that a barley harvest of 3.6 million tonnes will be expected. Here, barley is also expected to be ground at a very high level, up to 90%. Further possibilities of coverage arise from the inclusion of the so-called hindquarters in the supply of bread grain as well as the elimination of deliveries of cereals to the coffee substitute industry. In this context, Secretary of State Bake also dealt with the supply to the brewing industry of barley. However, the total removal of barley from the feed sector is naturally intolerable for both the meat and fat sectors.