English Translation

Copy.DER MINISTER PRAG, den 9.August 1943. FOR ECONOMY AND WORK II, Rudolfsplatz 4 - Nr.335/43 g - Beheim Herr Staatsrat M e i n b e r g Board member of the Reichswerke Aktiengesellschaft für Berg- und Hüttenbetriebe "Hermann Göring" Berlin. Dear Mr. Staatsrat! Dear party comrade Meinberg! Binding thanks for Jhren received today letter from the 6th ds.Mts. -Dr.v.C/B- because of the lack of workers at the Witkowitz ironworks. The allocation of workers to the so-called "Rü W-betriebe" of the Protectorate, to which Witcowitz belongs, is carried out by the Arms Inspector in Prague after consultation of the Armaments Commission, its chairperson of the arms inspector and in which the Labour Operations Administration, i.e. the autonomous Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour. The contingent of workers, which is made available to the military inspector on a monthly basis by the employment agency of the Protectorate, has been established in a joint discussion between Reichsminister Speer, the JCC, Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter Sauckel, and the Reichsprotektor in Berlin. Like this quota, from which, however, pre-production (mountain construction and egg-making equipment) must also be satisfied, is divided among the individual Rü W operations, the sole discretion of the arms inspector as the chairman of the Arms Commission is to be exercised. As he claimed that he could no longer meet the most urgent requirements of the defence works he was responsible for,