Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 748, sig. 110-5/37

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Abtellung V/4 Forestry 835/43. Prag, on 20 October 1943. Etngeganten heim 2140 Hasptabteilnogsleite V 104 An 4-Obergruppenführer Staatsminister F r a p k ar 21:43 über den Herrn Hauptabtragsleiter V. Betr.: Fire damage at the company V. E x n e r , furniture factory in Sedletz near Kuttenberg. According to the report of the supervising forest office Kolin is on l8.d.M. the furniture factory of the firm V. E x n e r in Sedletz near Kut tenberg was destroyed by a total fire. e t deedde e were a veneer peeling machine, an electrohydraulic press and other machinery, as well as the residential buildings and the storehouse a victim of the flames. The damage amounts to an estimated 8,500,000.- K. The fire was probably caused by an inflammation of sawdust in the exhaustor. Investigations into the origin of the fire were initiated by the criminal police. Ff 1 54110.43.