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General Unit V 1 09 V 1 - 12721/44 Prague, 15 December 1944. Minlster Office V e r m er k.für das M i n i s t e r a m t. 60E 16. DEC 1944 Subject: Procurement of bicycles. Letter from the Waffen-SS, SS-Artillerieschule II, Beneschau dated 1 December 1944 to the Commander of the Wafen-SS Bohemia and Moravia, Prague - Abt.l/Az.: 77/De/Schä Tgb.-No. 225/44 -. The capacity of the protectorate's bicycle producers has fallen to a fraction of its former capacity by other use of its production facilities for the most urgent armaments concerns. Of the current decline in bicycle production, the bulk of the distribution for armament workers must be provided for, as otherwise it cannot be guaranteed that they will be supplied to workplaces after the restriction of transport and as production facilities are increasingly relocated. The remaining part of bicycles remains to meet the needs of the post office, the authorities, the police and for urgent special purposes, without even nearing satisfaction of the needs to be recognised. In this situation, the issue of 4l0 bicycle tickets for the school operation of the "Scharnhorstverband" to the SS Artillery School II cannot be carried out without danger to the needs. I would like to suggest that first of all with the Protector's Team to clarify whether the required 4lo bicycles can not be borrowed from it. In this proposal I assume that the protectorate force, which is not currently in the Protectorate, will not have taken its entire stock of bicycles. u.WuMa Ms M√B-2515a/4