English Translation

29 that the demand for industrial goods of all kinds is constantly increasing and these goods are sent in large quantities to the rest of the Reich. In addition, buyers from occupied areas appear undesirable. The often indiscriminate purchase of substitute raw materials, given today's need, often causes deterioration in quality and thus price complaints. They are all the more difficult to counteract when many of these goods are produced mainly in the already difficult to control homework. Price monitoring has been countering these phenomena with very sensitive punishments and has achieved considerable success. In the near future, these will be significantly expanded in conjunction with the tighter control of the production bans of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, the combined allocation of raw materials and the employment of homeworkers in war-related production. In the month of April, around 11.8 million crowns were fined, 16.6 million crones were imposed in May, a total of 14 years were suspended, and 20 industrial licences were withdrawn in April and May. These figures are higher than the monthly average of the year l943 and are a visible consequence of the greater shift in the activities of the Supreme Price Authority to price monitoring. Through the development of personal contact, the use of experts in price formation in more difficult control cases, but above all through continuous checks by the price monitoring bodies and district authorities, it is sought to ensure that price monitoring frees itself more than before from the pursuit of formal price offences, rather its activity materially deepens and thus also achieves constantly better results. 1Pm/ W