Ministerstvo veřejných prací, Praha

The Czechoslovak Ministry of Public Works was founded shortly after the independence from Austria-Hungary in autumn 1918. The main agenda of the Ministry was the improvement of the infrastructure in the new country especially in the less developed parts of Slovakia and Carpatho-Ukraine. During the so called 2nd Czechoslovak Republic (October 1938-March 1939) the Ministry of Public Works lost building activities fro its agenda. Due to Reinhard Heydrich`s reform of the Protectorate government the Ministry of Public Works was dissolved in 1942. The finding aid Nr. 397 of the National archives in Czech is online available: http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/4570/ The Ministry of Public Works played a minor role in the persecution of the Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Although it was responsible for the development of infrastructure also in the years of the German occupation during taht Jews were used for Forced labour in this field, it seems that no documents in the collection are referring to that. According to the finding only boxes 2599 and 1649 are dealing with "the Jewish question".