English Translation

The present clerk, Dr. Kalkhorst, presented me with the choice either to take over the factory together with these members of the Baltic Germans or I would be eliminated at all. In this situation, I had no choice but to agree in principle with this proposal, even though I did not know the people. On 18.12.1940 I and Mr. Polenz received in the Bohemian Republic. Eskomptebank Prague handed over the authorization granted to Mr. Ing.Arnold Lohnberg by Mr. Reichsprotektor No. II/1-Jd- 44266/40 of 14.12.19 40, with which Mr.Ing. Ländenberg, Mr. Polenz and I authorized and commissioned the company Kraus in Gr.Porschitsch to visit, to negotiate with the Jewish company owner and to present the purchase contract immediately. I was to a conclusion Grundsätzli Ländberg but was not present, edoöwar I waited for him with Mr. Polenz Y to Wer did not come and Mr. Polandz did not own any. Czech Eskomptebank Prague a representative of the Jewish company owner Kraus ur.uaromir valenta,Advokat in Prague.II.Ju To the general surprise of all parties, a file note from which Dr. Wiesemann visited Dr.Wiesemann 12.1940: "Mr. Dr. Bodo Beneke,lawyer W.50.Kurfürstendamm 16 as a full SS-Huntsturmfiihron Montin Aibne