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Group III/1 Prague, 2 March 1942. III/1-3 V 33 mBohmanunomahron. Betr: Distribution of German BMB operating systems 3. MRZ.1942 U1 to the Deutsche Reichsbahn E Note: On 24.1.1942, the ßerium für Verkehrs und Technik issued an order in which it was informed to the iron railway authorities and the services that a number of BMB workers had to be handed over to the German Reichs Bahn by way of a service obligation. The services were ordered by this decree to notify the relevant employment offices of all single and single auxiliary workers in a list. The fact that German employees were not to be surrendered was not stated in the decree, because the involvement of the employment offices ensured anyway that German staff were not obliged to perform their duties. Some departments, however, have raised doubts about the interpretation of the decree, and the board of directors of the Neuenburg railway works and the management board of the Königgrätz Railway Directorate asked whether German staff had also been included in the lists. The head of Division VI of the Königgrätz Iron Railway Directorate, Ing Oberrat Michálek, replied that no further details were given in the decree of the Ministry of Transport and Technology and that the services should therefore proceed without distinction of nationality. The only two Germans at the talnagh mal Neuenburg railway works (employee: 700 men) were then asked by non anfang an tlara their board of directors whether they were willing to report to the Deutsche Reichsbahn for service. bnfve This was rejected by both on the grounds that Germans were not to be surrendered. At the repair work Neuenburg (employee: 1640 /c6 Mann) originally the l5 employed Germans 4 had been included in the tax list. However, by the railway representative of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Prague, immediately after he had been informed, St.S.g-16c/48