THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1076, sig. 109-4/830

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- 5 - In this context,it must be made clear to the Agriculture Council that it did not meet its obligation to supervise Z e i s in any way. Wolfram stated in his interview that he had only been aware of the inconsequences in the fruit and vegetable supply for about three weeks. This admission cannot be given faith because he and Z e s have repeatedly provided contradictory information. Although he stated that he had full confidence in the Z e i s and therefore gave him the greatest freedom of action and independence in his field of activity, he would have had to carry out occasional checks as head of department on Z e s. After he was aware that investigations were being carried out by the state police regarding the supply of fruit and vegetables, he intervened in such a way that he also called on the authorities, who had requested control reports in the course of the investigation, to send them to his own hands. In the course of his first investigations, he also allowed Zeiss to make copies of the control documents. He also visited all Kinerland dispatch camps at that time and obtained from these alleged mood reports on the food situation. However, he did not do this in his own capacity as head of the Agricultural and Food Division, but was the local group leader of Tabor vår's NSDAP. As a result, Wolfram's visit was accepted by the camp managers as a follow-up visit by the party, since he mainly discussed questions of political support during his visits, which extended in the individual camps for up to 15 minutes at most. He got the information in persecuting that they were satisfied with the food, because they did not know that he was the man responsible for food questions. He acted so skillfully that he usually said when he got his car, that he is sitting in the district office in Tebor and that they could address him with their concerns there. If he stated in his interrogation that he was on 25.7.42 at the company ./.