STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1600, sig. 109-4/1354 (damaged)

Page 62

English Translation

8 The Reichsprotektor bust in Bohemia and Moravia October 1942 Wtaler Abteilung I Nr. Subject: Regulations of the food industry in the. Protectorate. 1.) The proceedings must be submitted to the Secretary of State by way of service; the underlying incident has now been cleared up by direct debate between the State Secretary and the Wehrmacht authorised representative; the following circular is considered necessary in view of the importance of this case for factual and political reasons. 2.) Large distributor. 8 alo Based on the perceptions made, there is an obligation to point out the following. Already in 1940, the regulations in force in the rest of the Reich were introduced in the Protectorate concerning sample checks of the livestock population. In the course of the lead, it was found that in some cases Germans in exposed positions did not comply with these provisions and that they were found to have unreported livestock illegally. The need for the most precise observance of the regulations issued by the Reich Protector or by autonomous departments on the territory of the food industry is absolutely essential, especially in the Protectorate./All these regulations serve primarily X the interests of the Reich, so that their observance in the middle of a foreign-language area should be a matter of course for German people, even if it is not always apparent that the suggestion for the enactment of such compulsory management rules was based on the German side. Only the extreme discipline