English Translation

616 Porteikombindungsstelle beim Reidhsucotehtot in Eöhmen u. Mähren Eingenannannen am: 3.IX. 1943 German Workers' Party National Socialist Party Chancellery The head of the party law firm Führerhauptquartier, 27.8.1943 Circular No.122/43 Subject: Involvement of Reich defense commissioners in confiscating rooms for evasive accommodations. Hereinafter, a circular from the Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery of 10.8.1943 is sent to the Supreme Reich authorities for information. The Gauleiter and Reichsdefense Commissars have complained that, to an increasing extent, authorities are passing over without informing the ReichsDefense Com-missary buildings, including those that contain living spaces, in order to ensure another accommodation in the event of destruction of a service building by air raid. The same abuses have occurred in the use of buildings for public authorities whose services have already been destroyed. Such a procedure must lead to a general confusion; it takes away from the Gauleiter and Reichsdefense commissioners every overview of the occupation of space in their district and thus endangers above all the housing of the homeless population. The Führer has commissioned me to make the necessary arrangements so that every unregulated seizure and use of rooms is prevented and carried out properly and according to plan.