English Translation

98 (5.) Economy. The reorganization and concentration of the protectorate- economic is carried out according to the following basic considerations. Concentration and unification in the sense of the German armor. Not taking over important enterprises in German state ownership, but - according to the same principle as in the administrative reform - executive influence in these enterprises (for example, Bata as a family company recently exclaimed a German supervising officer, who receives his basic guidelines from the German executive staff of the Reichsprotektor). The Protectoret Böhmen and Eähren has a commercial production apparatus whose human capacity - in contrast to the rest of the empire - has been reduced by the withdrawal of civilian workers, but hardly by military confiscation. Therefore, after the basic term "Work for the Workers" it was first proposed to transfer arms to the Protectorate, as its military-geographical situation makes it particularly suitable for war-important productions. However, this transfer of orders finds its limit in the limited available lenght of coal and knergie (50 percent). coal comes to the WBB Reichegebiet, on the electrific area there is no composite economy yet). From 15.4.1942 - in order to achieve a simplification and increase in performance of the Rilatiuasesewifung in Sine des Pührerbehörde of 3.12.1941 - the closure of some 2,500 industrial enterprises has begun in whole or in part. As a result, up to 50,000 workers and close to 100,000 conatstons of coal are released for production.