THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 884, sig. 110-7/46

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25a Since there is a special lack of large vehicles in Bohemia and Moravia, the # Chief Executive Office is ready to also provide larger vehicles (4 and 5 to ) capable of driving with 1 öder 2 trailers. A similar offer was made by the Special Envoy of the Führer, General of the Panzertruppen Kü h n, who wanted to pull out of the Protectorate 20o0 lorries capable of carrying out an eastward duty train for replacement. General Kühn, by the Wehrmacht authorized officer, had informed by the military replacement inspection in Prague a few weeks ago that a replacement position was separated by. Army vehicles could not be carried out because of lack of other motor vehicles. He had given the order to have the unangled trucks in Bohemia and Moravia modelled and repaired in the home motor parks žu. These vehicles should then be given as a replacement for the east-use vehicles of the economy. The entry into service of these old vehicles, which are partly more than 1 5 years old, will not be able to be carried out to a significant extent because the vehicles are either ready for scrapping or because spare parts are missing, which can no longer be procured at all. In my opinion, road transport difficulties are less due to a lack of lorries, but rather to the following causes: 1.) As a result of the lack of tyres, there are still a great many vehicles standing still; in many cases the tyres of the trailers have been removed in order to tyres the motor vehicle, so that in this way the cargo compartment. 2.) By restricting freight transport on the railways, 30 which temporarily leads to a goods acceptance ban and by other delays during the transport of goods on the railway, the economy has gone over to using the truck more than hitherto. 3.) Due to the ever decreasing fuel allocation Osse, vehicles whose conversion to generator operation is not possible or which could not yet be carried out due to lack of generators or workers (overloading of workshops) can travel very little aot. Because of the fuel supply to the Protectorate, a letter was sent to Berlin by the Minister of State, 3A. II. Awareness of these difficulties, the H-Leadership Office wants to try to make a corresponding number of new tyres available to the Nbv:1 for the new Skoda trucks, which are matured here in the factory. If this is not feasible, the H-head office wants to provide used or retreadable tyres.o The delivery of 200 vehicles can be held responsible. auhe m-1n Oberregierungsrat 44055