English Translation

th/ XT At the request of the head of the ministry, Ing. Rudolf Weiss, German national, appears at the moment in Wlaschim (Institute of the DAF) and explains the following: l. As I have already informed the German Criminal Police in Prague and the clerk for the distribution of petrol by the Primator - Reichsbeauftragsverwaltung - in writing to the capital Prague, the construction manager Franke of the DAF. Institute Vlashim carried out unfair follow-up with fuel. In particular, he seems to be the gasoline edition for journeys of Prof. Strauss on the hunt, to have made a cinema visit, etc., he will then probably have diverted the gasoline from unjustly sourced Benżin quantities. However, I myself as a witness cannot state this with certainty. If, however, the entire bookkeeping on petrol collection and expenditure would be submitted to me, I could perhaps also have a proof of such cachings myself. In any case, the fact is that Prof. Strauss has made trips to Berlin for hunting, cinema (all these things in 1943). To do this, he must have used gasoline from the quantities made available to the institute as such for construction purposes. I have already made the mentioned written gifts about all these things after the best of my knowledge. More than I said there, I cannot say today either. The withdrawal of petrol is all the more outrageous because wounded soldiers have been taken from the train to the hospital on several occasions not in an ambulance, but in an open truck. This open truck has been used because it has a wood gas engine and therefore no petrol had to be used for the wounded. According to Prof. Strauss, this spared petrol was then used to drive the cars that had been declared inadmissible. Moreover, according to the general view, Franke's private lifestyle is not the best. However, I do not want to give any details. I don't want to be a "carrier". 2. Against other civilians, in particular employees of the DAF, I cannot raise concrete accusations. On the other hand, Strauss is generally regarded as a leopard offender for the entire misery. However, I do not want to mingle with this because the Wehrmacht issue is. *