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147 German Criminal Police Prague II, December 20, 1943 Criminal Police Headquarters Prague C.-M.-v.-Weber-Straße 7 K III/3 - 3645/43 Telephone call: 927-48-40 Tgb.-No. Please indicate in the reply pending sign and date To the S srpa ed of the de 4 standartenfuhrer and colonel of the police Dr. We i n m a n n , in Prague. Subject: Investigation proceedings against the protectorate member Dr. Karl S k a 1 a, born 13.9.1908 in Prague, u.a. Process: Without. After two authorised representatives from here had continuously reported that in the villa of the former lawyer Dr. Karl > k a 1 a, Prague XIV., Svatoslausgasse 2, a secret bar operated for about 6 months, in which a delivery of branded food is held at enormous prices without stamps, were searched on 9.12.1943, 2 o'clock at night, the premises of the villa by officials of the criminal police station Prague. A society of 11 people, 6 men and 5 women was found in the villa, from which 3 men and 3 women were provisionally arrested. Among the arrested were the Aktuar Adjunct Johann St r a c h and the Rayon Inspector II. Cl. Alois B e r k a, both from the Protectorate Criminal Police - Criminal Directorate Prague Department K II/6. The criminal police investigation revealed that the villa owner Dr. S k a l a had been running this bar for about 6 months and had bought goods and spirits there at enormous overprices to his guests. It cost e.g. a filled bun 60.- crown, a dinner with meat 200.- kroner, a bottle of cognac of inferior quality 2 O00.- Crowns, 1 bottle of ordinary consumer wine 400.- Kronen. The delivery of the farmed food was of course without brands. To animate the male visitors to the bar business, Dr. S k a 1 a each time invited a corresponding number of girls and women to the villa, among them also the clerks of the Prague film, who had been married for 5 months Emilie P a c l. According to her own statements she was often in the villa of Dr. S ka l a and has once, $\F-1^7 1338 43 160