STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2732, sig. 109-14/35

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English Translation

1.) Slaughter animals and animal products. In spite of the fact that only for statistical dd counts a lively trade in meat and animal produce flourished throughout the whole of the protectorate, especially with the pigmeat and fat caught from other causes. The activity of the trades involved in the trade in cattle and butchers has already gone so far that this meat sector was no longer available in the ordinary retail trade. It was therefore necessary to use the cattle herds for the supply of meat to the population, which were less eligible for the black trade because of their difficult negation and thus experienced a substantial reduction. Also slaughter poultry was almost exclusively sold in the black market and was usually only to be had at usury prices. In this context, it is particularly noteworthy that the criminal police department in Prague is working on this process. A butcher bought from the rich horses and lambs imported for breeding purposes, placed them under the hand by means of a notice of intent on him completely unknown beetles, which then killed the animals and consumed the meat or moved them in the Schleichhan del.