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RA Sicherheitsdienst RFf Prag-Bubentsch 12, June 1941. GD-Ceitseil Prag Sachfenweg Ferniprecher 77444 C 2 L Reidlp.o.eh.oe 9 in Buhmenund mähren. Eing.: 13.JUNI 1941 To the 9 Tgb. Nr.: Mr. State Secretary at the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Mähren A i Group leader K.H. Fr a n k , \.ec.d Prague. 23.9/92 9/ Betr.: Voices on the question of the Schleichhandel and its fight against in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Vorg.: Without. From almost all areas of the Protectorates a decline in the Schleichehandel is observed in recent times. This is mostly due to the strict control measures, as well as to the high penalties. Apart from the penalties themselves, the announcement of the penalties in the press did not miss the deterrent effect. On the other hand, the slimming trade in small ones remains undiminished, His fight against it is very difficult, since it is almost exclusively wrapped up among each other's acquaintances. In the fight against the trade in creeps, as almost all parts of Bohemia and Moravia are bordered, has not been noticed. Their activity has extended to the surface and has been only a mocking maneuver. This failure of the NG. has triggered only cheerfulness among the population. Characteristic of this are exteriors like: " The NG . In most cases, it has not gone any further than, on paper committees and some articles in the press." As far as the creeping trade, both in large and in small, can continue to flourish, he still learns of the unreliability or deliberate lukewarmness of the control officials support, because "one crow does not chop out the other's eyes". To this end, it is said that members of the price-surmounting agencies, which are interspersed by anti-German Czechs, (former officers) are more likely to promote the black trade than they are against it. \8- 57/4