STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2552, sig. 109-12/199

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In addition, the extraordinary increase in the use of goods and languages in the Protectorate of traffic with the Eastern Mark, which was ordered by the Minister of the Interior with effect from 23 September 1939, experienced an unexpected economic upswing. that all station names, tariffs, service regulations, pre-requisites were now far beyond the importance of privileged prints, traffic books, vehicle addresses, etc., two- and non-privileged transit traffic must be for language. Although the implementation of these provisions took a longer period of time, German and international freight transport has been carried out through the Protectorate with all its means. Since 1 July 1940 all tickets and traffic forms bilingual, geographical location in consideration rich German stations the railway network of the Protectorate issued in the rest of the Reich according to tariff and to a certain extent also operationally to the protectorate unilingual German. In 1940, about 70 000 employees of the Bohemian, which had a major impact on the freight situation, nament Moravian railways in many areas of the course, bordering the Protectorate, learned the German language free of charge. Bohemian Moravian-Silesian region, in addition to the 1. In October 1940, as for the whole Protectorate, however, it was also on international traffic. In the case of the whole transport sector, this is a very unusual one, but because of the initial importance of the abolition of the customs border and the circumstances described, the tariff measure which has been forced upon it has thus been incorporated into the large German customs territory, practically all the way to the small part of the traffic, the territory and by the removal of the foreign exchange border. the Moravian-Slovak border crossings the shortest This event gave all integration and anglei path to find the tracks of the protectorate from the intercession work a new drive. Even if in the national competition with the Deutsche Reichsbahn Bahnen initially on this day only the customs regulations are eliminated. This also changed the position of the German railways and the corresponding pro-tecto-rate railways at the international railway documents in the German freight handling regulations in conferences, at which the overall representation of the great force took place, since the way was now open for the basic German railways to the measures in the individual tariff regulations, which were to be adopted on 1 January 1980. The abolition of the customs border stations allowed, by Article 6 of the Führer's Decree, that the Reich should exercise the functions of the Protectorate in respect of the supplementary Convention of 21 November 1940. the privileged and non-privileged pure transit, but also the relationship between the transport of goods by road, and these trains now run and the other German railways remained to be made available to the alternating traffic. They did not have this tariff measure without influence, so that e.g. the Austrian-Teschecho-Slovak Association tariff allowed it further, both the general cargo regulations and with effect from 1 January 1941 the management regulations could be abolished. Further measures had to follow regulations for the. freight wagon cargo traffic in Zu-, to which I come back further below. Working together with the Deutsche Reichsbahn according to pure was thus to set up in international rail transport the now operational aspects and manufactured every German character of the protectorate railways, so selfish an effort in the formation of the transport had to eliminate appropriate measures in the large German traffic. In spring 1941 the number had followed. First of all, it was necessary to increase the international transfer of transit trains to threefold. A conversion agreement concluded between the Protectorate and December 1940 was to be removed from the rest of the Reich in the right of transport, and the German government also created the possibility of setting up a position at the workplace. By decree of the Reichsregierung Difficulties In transit trains in traffic between December 15, 1939, the Deutsche Eisenbahn- Reichsbahnstrecken was carried out on the lines of the Protectorate's Transport Code of September 8, 1938 for the entire railway, deviating from the prescribed public railway traffic between the Protectorates. This reciprocal agreement and the rest of the empire, and this traffic, together with the same agreement, has become a German internal transport. In the meantime, the introduction of the German service regulation for minor specificities only applies, as well as in train line points, operating situation reports and operating regulations of the Ostmark, with regard to the railway Pfandrecht. In December 1939, the unity of the large German companies became daily the agreements on transit and transport and operation management. The cooperation replaces alternating traffic with a legal regulation, which, as the operating centre of the Bohemian-Mährische Bahnen, emphasizes its permanent character, withdrawing it from any swan-named top operating and traffic management with respect to the political views in Prague, the neighbouring general operating lines have been completely smooth and the character of the protectorate railway network has been re-established by law and completely part of the large German transport network. The renunciation of the competition of the Böhmisch-Mäh- accordingly was also carried out at the instigation of the Reichs- rian Railways with the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the 541