STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, INV. 61, Sig. 109-1/67

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127 PraeMdeais tetenbar nt 4 The Head of Division V Eing.: 13. SEP. 1944 To 4-upper group leader Minister of State F r a n k Confidential! Betr.: Schuhproduktion bei Bat'a. The message at my yesterday's lecture that the shoe production at the Bat'A A.G. must be reduced due to leather deficiency is overtaken by a notification received today from Berlin. After that Pirmasens, where a substantial part of the German shoe production is located, has to be evacuated. The leather contingent which will be released there will be divided between other large shoe companies, so that in the Bat'a A.G. a low production due to leather deficiency does not have to occur at first. M/S oh b.o.