Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1147, sig. 110-11/85 (damaged)

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143a -8-- signifying mood-abstract provides in this respect the following report of the above mentioned prisoner: "When we arrived on 9.ll.l943 at night in the reserve hospital Kladrub, Barrack l6, Stube 8, we were greeted with the following words: "There are again some victims in the GPU cellar." One used at all with preference the Bolshevik terminology. For example, the barracks strips were generally described as "commissaries". The hospital itself was only spoken of as "forced labour camp". It was often heard that the wounders in Kladrub" had to work for the DAF's bonts. For dog breeding and other luxury, such as eating, drinking and women's stories, public funds would be consumed. Unfortunately, the obafeldwebel, who had been invited as witnesses, had fallen over, so that the initiator of the trial, a private person, had been punished by six weeks. The Private reported that although the wounded are not restrained by their outraged statements about the Wlashim system, none of them think that they should bring these things before an official body, as one is convinced from the outset of the prospectlessness of such a company against a "bolt like ostrich". Among the wounded, it is spread that St. A close relative of Reichsleiter Ley was also told that Strauss had been a companion doctor of the Führer for many years during the fighting. On the occasion of the visit of Reich-ley, Dr. Ley, an unsolicited approach to Dr.Ley with wishes and complaints was expressly undersaid. A civilian employee employed in the hospital in Kladrub answered af the question, why no one had yet found himself, who brought these standards to the competent authority, that against ostrich already enough messages were returned and also investigations were conducted. Strauß, however, has such a routine in defending his position, so that every inspection in Kladrub has so far failed in his favour. The recent visit of the general physician Muntsch also ended with the fact that he broke a lance in public speech before the wounded for Strauß. Muntsch is said to have begun his speech with the following words: "I am going down today for the first time to reply to an anonymous letter in Forn of a speech". Since the anongme ad apparently contained the question where the bean coffee donated by the Waffen-i had come, the general physician brought in in his speech a quote from the Reichsmarschall, in which he stated: "If today bean-coffe smelled to me from the neighboring house, then I don't care much - I will one day drink beans coffee and my neighbor will not have one." 36618