English Translation

XI.1942 The head of the 44-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt Berlin, 17.12.1942. Lichterfelde-West Ch.Po./Sa. Unter den Eichen 126-135 3# 4035 Telex: Local traffic 765261 Long-distance traffic 76 51 01 20 An 4-Oberführer B e r t s ch eE Gobein Minister of Economy and Labour Ye Prague A Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour Dear comrade Bertsch ! The Reichsführer has given me personally the order to quickly transfer a cellulose and paper factory under his own direction to the W-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt, in order to ensure the solution of present and future assignments in the field of writing. The Reichsführer-il is all the more interested in this guarantee, because the head of the party chancellery is also very interested in it. eare nh G 156 UE As you know, the 4-business administrative head of Nordland Verlag, who has already earned the spores as a ideological propaganda and martial publishing house, belongs to the 4-economic administrative head. In spite of the tension of the war, he is given the tremendously responsible task of building up a publishing and distribution apparatus, so that, if necessary, at the latest at the end of the War, he will be a powerful instrument not only in the hands of the Reichsführer-H, but also the Reich leader involved in the work of Nordland Verlag. This also includes securing the paper. Io Feme s e After the fundamental agreement of the competent Berlin authorities on the acquisition of a cellulose and paper factory by the 4_Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt, my employee, w-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Mischke, noted that bed neesi the Prague-Neusiedler cellulose and paper factories correspond very well to the objectives ordered by the Reichsführer. din The production capacity of these factories would not only - - 2 - 4-2BB 188. 2000 7. 42.