English Translation

14.03a his health and his performance and guarantees him and his family a secure livelihood. Despite war-related restrictions on food, extended working hours and higher demands, the health status of the workers in the Old Reich is far better than before the rise of National Socialism. It has remained almost unchanged compared to 1939. Performance assessments in the companies and medical advice provided proof that this is primarily due to the administration of warm food during working hours. For this reason, a large number of enterprises have already moved before the war and at the beginning of the war to introduce community catering. For reasons of war economy and social welfare, enterprises in which mainly heavy, heavy and long-time workers are employed must be given preferential treatment. Similarly, such establishments, which offer the guarantee of proper implementation through kitchen facilities, storage rooms and kitchen staff, are preferred to be included in the action. In addition to the permanent orientation and advice of the companies by co-workers of the representative for the community catering, for example, a training of the kitchen managers and factory cooks by experienced teachers in teaching and factory kitchens is carried out in analogy to the practice in the old kingdom. New, conversion and expansion of factory kitchens will in the future require the consent of the commissioner in each case, in order to avoid misplanning and waste of raw materials and to secure the most urgent need. Plans and offers must be submitted for approval. In the same way, new kitchen appliances such as boilers, kitchen appliances, containers and tableware may be purchased only with the approval of the authorised representative, on presentation of the tenders, and the allocation of food products subject to a card or registration certificate is, as before, carried out by the competent trade associations, district authorities and magistrates in accordance with uniform directives. In the future, special allocations of all kinds of food will be made on instructions from the department of the commissioner according to war-related and social aspects, in which the work performance is the standard according to the motto: "He who works the hardest receives the greatest meal from the bread basket of the people!" The safeguarding of the diet of the whole people and a fair distribution in a broad view, conditional — as in the rest of the Reich region since