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25 The Plenipotentiary for Transport to the German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia VIII/3 676/I/43 g. Prague, 10 December 1943. C'll huhuhn An den I breard Mr Head of Division V DEDE S - in the H a u s e. Mey - - - ST S 03 Betr.: New production of trucks in the Protectorate Reference: Letter dated 30.11.1943. Supplement: 3 Appendices.I In the Supplement, I present the file note of the W-Hauptsturm-T führer Zimmermann back with a note on a calculation of the 2.12.l943 between Öbergänzungsbaurat Pfeifer, Regierungsrat von Vietinghoff, Baron Freiherr von Ringhoffer and Herr von Mumm. At an oral meeting in Prague, I had the opportunity to hold the facts recorded in the meeting of 2 December 19943 to the Chief Sturmführer Zimmermann. W-Hauptsturmförder Zimmerman remained with the fact that the H would have given quotas for one part of the vehicles. As the question of truck production at Skoda in the spring of the year d.J. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank the rapporteur for his excellent report, and I should also like to congratulate him on his excellent work. The W is of the opinion that the supply of used commercial vehicles from France should not constitute compensation or compensation for the quotas given. It is certainly true that the quotas for 600 lorries given by the main committee for motor vehicles come from quotas of the #. However, considering that the # received French vehicles, a "claim" of the # would not insist on leaving a part of the new production. At a meeting with Presidential Chief Dr. Schmidt, I explained the reasons which determine the l-head office to ask for part of a new production of the protectorate on trucks. The entire new production of trucks in the rest of the Reich is available to the Wehrmacht. Only in very special cases of exception can the economy receive new vehicles. Furthermore, the demand of the economy is covered by separate Wehrmascht vehicles or vehicles of foreign production, which are not eligible for the Wehracht. The need to give the factory-new vehicles to the front is quite justified - as I have explained to Mr President-in-Office Dr. Schmidt. However, taking into account that the local economy needs vehicles for many reasons, a tax on these new vehicles is only possible if used vehicles are given as replacements, which are not capable of field operation but can be used at home.