English Translation

In addition to my duties as head and head of the German Criminal Police in Bohemia and Moravia, I am responsible for the business, since I have no staff, except for a temporary office assistant assigned to the service. The fight against smuggling has so far been mainly carried out in the urgent sector of the food industry. B. Situation review up to 1.10.1941. The driving of the economic pests has been favoured by the following circumstances: I. Failure of economic controls and the protectorate authorities. In spite of all possible efforts, all attempts to achieve a summary of the various economic controls which have an adverse effect on the part of the two sides of industry did not produce any complete success, since each protectorate department was jealous of the maintenance of its competences and refused to be brought under uniform supervision. In the case of individual central offices, in particular the Ministry of Agriculture and Transport, the clear tendency had emerged to make all the proposals in this respect by means of often months of work.