GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 814, sig. 110-6/7

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3 - 17 agreeing that they would recognize the presented cangels, but that they themselves would not be able to bring about a fundamental change on this whole issue. On 15 September 1944, HDL S a u r had instructed the Director P o e h l n n n, seconded by the Reicha Lieferamt, who had previously been responsible for the planning of the production equipment, to reorganise the entire assignment and the selection of subcontractors. A company-side intervention would lead to considerable difficulties with HDL S a u r. VII. Vlante measures : In these circumstances, with the greatest acceleration, must be connected from here or higher place to HDLS a ur and the facts must be brought to his attention. For Director P o e h n n n a n , a specialist who knows both the individual pirmen in the local space and the need for individual production is precisely instructed to entrust the task of re-regulating the forgiveness of the subcontracts. The person concerned would be responsible for his task exclusively for the management of the company, so that from the outset every influence from the third side is prevented. VIII. General: If one raises the question of guilt for the fixed defects, then the Bmm itself must be held responsible for this first. This fact, however, needs to be limited to the extent that the company has been more or less forced to place the mint parts production in a form which has been absolutely uncommitted to it so far. For this purpose - completely overhappy and absolutely unplanned - a contract exchange was established, on which the majority of the companies now managed as subcontractors was obliged to take over orders. So this happened voz grünen Nisch, without taking into account the affordability and capacity of the individual companies. It is not surprising, therefore, that at the present control it had to be established that there are still today companies among them, to which already months ago material has been allocated, but which do not have the devastationing machine tools or the necessary specialists to be able to carry out the order. The necessary machines have now been replaced by the BMm bss, but their delivery can probably only take place in the next few months. Or vice versa, where companies are powerful enough to be able to carry out the orders they have taken, but they are not taken into account for material assignment. its origin in the system with which the entire tank program has been brought up at BkM. Instead of creating a uniform clear responsibility for the entire production, individual areas of responsibility of a whole series of special representatives were placed in the hands of pp. and thus a central control was made impossible. This condition has already undergone a certain change, but has not yet been completely implemented everywhere. Mo: Many cooks spoil the porridge.