STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1461, sig. 109-4/1215

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The account was opened by deposit of RM 5,000.- = K. 50,000.-. This amount had been made available by the Oberkasse of the Reichsprotektor on 7 June 1939 as an advance for the payment of the expenses of the interim management. On request, the advance on 5.1.l940 was transferred back to the Oberkeß of the Imperial Protector. 16 2) Account_Nr_9779_"Der_komm.Leiter_der_IX.Sektion für Bodenreform_(Agriculture Ministry)" Bankkonto I bei der Böhmischen Eskompte-Bank,_Prague On 13.6.1939, M-Oberführer von Gottberg ordered the liquidation of the anniversary fund by the Komm. 4,838.708.85 to open the above bank account. The funds of this account were intended only for the purpose of denying the actual expenses, but were used for all kinds of expenditure. 17 According to the investigation, the Jubilee Fund is not a legal entity of its own, but part of the Colonization Fund and only a sub-account within it. 18 Since the colonization fund is maintained in its existence, the dissolution of the so-called anniversary fund could not take place, but the statutory statutes apply to the abolition of the colonisation fund.