STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1470, sig. 109-4/1224

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Ih - 2 - far at the top, while inside the country, alec in today's Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the metalworking industry occupies the leading position, Purch cession in the autumn of the year l939 remained the bulk of the production goods industry in the protectorate. In addition, however, a considerable part of the textile industry, especially the wool industry and the chemical industry, remained in the protectorate. By the establishment of the Protectorate, the character of the mutual trade of the countries of Bohemia and Moravia with the countries in the south-east has not changed significantly. Due to the reclassification these countries have returned to the Grossdeutsche Verbundenheit and thus also to the economic interdependence of the Great German Economic Area. The countries of Bohemia and Moravia, within the framework of mutual relations and in close contact with the Reich, have taken a development which today makes it difficult to distinguish it in its economic structure from that of the Reich. They are among the most industrially rich regions of Great Germany. The close association with the Danube monarchy opened up the markets of the states in the south-east to far into the Levante hi- no. For a multiple expansion of the economic relations with Bohemia and Moravia to the South-Oaten, today and in the future the conceivable best conditions are given. The enormous construction projects (construction of canals and roads) underline the importance of the countries of Bohemia and Nährren as a mediator between north and south and east and west noeh. If, today, continental Europe is re-ordered according to the laws of the Raunes and the life laws of its peoples, then it is the task of the countries of Bohemia and Moravia in the sign of the re-orientation of large-scale agriculture that the traditional relations between the two countries are to be established.