STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1809, sig. 109-5/37

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2. Continuation of the report Prague, 12 June 1941. 5 to Mr. Secretary of State 4 group leader K.H. Frank. to participate railway personnel or postal officials in the Schleichhandel. Thus the post officials in Schlan should order food and meat by telephone from the known merchants and butchers, which, without giving any tickets, are fetched by the postmen. In individual areas, the smugglers form a tight organization, which stands in close contact with the down-to-earth population. For this type of trade, especially the tempting merit is the cause. Variously, the penalties imposed by the district and state authorities are described as far too low to act as a deterrent. Thus, a Czech prison overseer had expressed himself in a place of the OLR Brno, that the butchers sentenced for the sale of a separatist goods rather paid the small prison sentence than the fines. These allegedly said that one did not know where the money came from. Moreover, the food was good and the camp was pleasant. 88288 $MzObersturmbannführer