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St Der Wehrmachtbegrägte Brag, den...14 September... ry h/. 139 in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Abbot IVa Az.No. 449/39 g Home! Reference: Reichsprotektor I f1619 1 a/654 geh. v.9.9.39 Betr.: Hamsteraufkaufen von Seiten Wehrmächtbereiter. To the Reichspretektor Z.H. Mr FRANK, Secretary of State, I have the honour to inform you that all measures have been taken by my department in advance in order to prevent the incidents you have indicated, so I would be very grateful if you could inform me of specific cases so that I can intervene later. On the other hand, however, I have to say that it is quite humanely understandable when individual Wehrmachts - hear in the shops still very well filled in Prague, little things they need to get up. I do not think that such purchases can be regarded as hamster purchases either. I have not known anything about hamster acquisitions by troops. But the better-off Czech civilian population is supposed to hamster goods of all kinds in an outrageous way. With regard to the observation made by your office that the maximum prices for purchases by the Wehrmacht are exceeded by the planning authorities, I should like to point out that maximum prices have not yet been fixed in the legal sense, but that this has been done by me in agreement with the military department and the