STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1641, sig. 109-4/1396

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b1 1.2 - - - the report on the need to cover a meat mancose, which was held almost every day, is not sure who but was about 2500 kg of meat. The meeting was attended by the defendants Bradsë,Stübchen,Fukar and Hanuß, except for Deputy Chief Executive W, Riha, who had died in the meantime. After the Pospieil had stated that nothing else was left to announce to the competent ministry the shortfall and to ask for compensation, or to cover the shortness by buying meat, the conference participants obviously decided to hide from the supply authority the real causes of the shortage, for the proposal to cover up the shortfall by buying fieish black. In the implementation of this decision, by May 194l, some 250ooo K were spent from the company's resources in order to cover the current shortage by purchasing meat free of brands and overpriced. The amounts of money received for disbursement were each instructed by Bradaê and Stübchen and handed over or transmitted to the sellers by Pospiâil until 1.2.i94l, later partly directly, partly by employees of the company Postex-GmbH. The funds used for the black incantation of meat were disguised in the book as charges for wood, coal or vegetable supplies and misleaded on the basis of the disguised documents. Although the vast majority of the black bought meat had to be purchased against overprices, the meat was sold in the dining halls of the PES at normal selling prices. The loss of the dadureh had to be borne by the society Postex. The organiser of the machinations was the defendant Pospißil. He ordered the defendant Dvoßak to be the sales agent of the Postex-fleishery in Sassaustrasse No.26 and the defendants who had been charged with buying meat in the PostEx-sealery as butchers and butchers' assistants, to buy it in black or to establish links with black traders. The Capek, who was again approached by Zitek for mediation at the Postex as a driver, then stelite initially between