English Translation

Mr K. stated that he had to deal with so many points that it was impossible for a manager to carry out such a measure. Nevertheless, Pleiger again accused the workers that many hours of work at the Witkowitzer Eisenwerk would be wasted on works which merely served the preservation of Jewish property, but not the German armaments industry. In particular, he cited as an example the construction of a gas machine that consumes hundreds of thousands of working hours, which were merely considered. Instead, it would have been absolutely necessary for a responsible manager to make every working hour of the plant of direct armor serviceable. Following this meeting, a second meeting was held under the chairmanship of Minister Bertsch as representative of the Minister of State, SS-Obergruppenführer Frank, on the subject of the overall behaviour of Director-General Kuchinka as the responsible company leader of the Witkowit sr Eisenwerke. At the beginning of the discussion, Pleiger asked Mr. K. to present the two letters of 27 June 1944 written to the Reich Commissioner for the Treatment of Hostile Assets. Mr.K. did not have the copies of these letters at hand, but they were in custody of Dr. Nowak, who was on leave a week ago by Mr. Pleiger. After some time, these letters were fetched and submitted. Pleiger then read out from them the points dealing with the relationship between HGw/Wit-kowitzer Eisen-Werke. It was found that K. mainly raised two preliminary arguments against HGW: 1. The management contract between HgW and Witkowitz union was not only unnecessary, but also harmful to the Witcowitz union. On this point it was stated that K-W-W. the management contract voluntarily and without an objection or any objections expressed