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

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259 Dr.Bertsch Prague, July 3, 1944. -No.V-2037/44- M At the meeting of the Minister of State with Mr. Reichsminister S p e e r on July l944 in the presence of Lord Mayor Liebel, the undersigned and the personal speaker of the minister of the Reich, the following was discussed: . The Minister of the Reich was very keenly interested in the question of the conversion of the motor vehicles of the Protectorate to generators. He asked for an accelerated communication on the exact state of this measure in Bohemia and Moravia and will arrange for his responsible clerk to get into contact with OrR Capuste as soon as possible. The Reichsminister was told that the conversion to generators was further advanced in the Protectorate than in the rest of the Reich area; an even stronger conversion was due to the greatest difficulties in the tire question. II. i-Obergruppenführer Minister of State F r a n k submitted with the request for information and approval.