English Translation

59 II. Deficient recording of consumer goods by the producer. 1.) Slaughter animals and animal products. Despite the quarterly livestock censuses carried out only for statistical purposes, however, a lively trade in meat and animal produce flourished throughout the protectorate, especially with the pigmeat and fat caught from other causes. The activity of the mainly involved trades from the cattle trade and butcher's trade 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 concealment 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 guinea pigs and lambs, imported from the rich for breeding purposes, placed them under the hand by means of advertising advertisements on him completely unknown beetles, which then slaughtered the animals and consumed the meat or moved them in the Schleichhan del.