STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1909, sig. 109-6/1 Page 22 · 22 of 109
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1909, sig. 109-6/1
English Translation
Copy 15 In the very last days, among other things, numerous German craftsmen and merchants in Prague received the military convocation orders and had to enter within 2-3 days. A considerable number of intruders do not have the option of letting a representative carry on the company they have received for decades in the heaviest battles or have now acquired by large sacrifices, and must be ap e r r e n ! These German businesses and businesses, which have literally become German bases in Prague and which have to provide for most of the German population, are lost! When one speaks of national struggle and economic war, the folk-German craftsman and merchant in Prague can say without pretentiousness that he has stood in the first pront and still stands today! The peculiar conditions in the Protectorate, which now, after 28 October and 15 November 1939, expressed itself in the judgments and numerous arrests, the tenacious and ravened guided Czech boycott, the inadequate financial security and, last but not least, the rules on raw materials, force the dutch craftsman and Prague to remain unchanged, indeed to a much greater extent, and to a greater extent a serious struggle for existence. Businesses that had claimed to be without customers due to full 20 years of resettlement and distress were literally left without customers and are facing collapse! Not all could be given a replacement for the lost Czech customer stock by delivery contracts for the Wehrmacht, police, etc. The best German specialists,workers and apprentice boys have already left in the Öktober lg38 in the Sudetengau or were prompted by the higher wage to go to the Reichsprotektor, Oberlandrat, Wehrmachtstellen etc. in place as servant,home,porter asw.be.