English Translation

( Berlin, 7 June 1939, The food supply of the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen-Mähren and the Sudetenland. On behalf of the Ministry of Food of the Empire, processed by: Brüßlein, v.d. Decken,Fensch,Hahn,Hegemann,Quante. Preliminary remarks. This report was prepared by the experts in Prague from 20 to 26 May 1939. The intention to draw up the documents for the report and, if necessary, the report itself together with the Czech Ministry of Agriculture was abandoned, since the Czech Minister of Agriculture had now been given the direct mandate to prepare a nutritional and supply balance sheet for the Reich Protectorate. The head of the business group Food and Agriculture of the Reichsprotektorat, Land-bauernführer R a s c h k a, considered it more expedient to have the Czech Ministry of Agriculture draw up its own report, and then to review it later on on the basis of the expert report of the German experts. Therefore, the Czech Ministry of Agriculture was informed in an in-depth discussion only of the balance sheet and the general principles of the accounting methods used in the Reich, in order to enable a comparison with the German report later. The statistical documents for the establishment of a nutritional balance sheet are not available for the Reichs-protectorate Böhmen-Mähren in accuracy and complexity as well as for the realm. Therefore, the calculated balance sheets can only record orders of magnitude and approximate values. After all, the Czech statistics are more productive and reliable than the statistics of the former Austria. The utilization of the available documents was made more difficult by the fact that the boundaries between the Reichsprotektorat and the Sudeten German territories have so far only partially been included in the statistics. Several statistical averages are only available for the former countries of Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia. In many cases the statistical values of the Reichsprotectorate could therefore only be determined by means of an estimate. In order to produce these estimates with the greatest possible certainty, the corresponding values for the Sudetenland were also estimated. The statistics available for the countries of Bohemia and Moravia were used as a check. This method inevitably resulted in the extension of the mandate given to the experts: In addition to the nutritional balance of the Reichsprotektorat, the nutritional account was also drawn up.