English Translation

Nevertheless, Mr Pleiger, in turn, made the accusation that many working hours of the best skilled workers in the Witkowitzer Eisenwerk would be wasted with works which merely served the preservation of Jewish property, but not the German armaments company. In particular, he cited as an example the construction of a gas engine which consumes hundreds of hours of work, which was merely a reserve and for which the blast furnace had to be built. Instead, it would have been absolutely necessary for a responsible operator to make every hour of work of the direct armour plant serviceable. During this meeting, a second meeting was held under the chairmanship of Mr Bertscn, Minister of State, SS-Obergruppenfünrer. Frank, who was responsible for the overall behaviour of Mr Kuchinka, Director-General of the Witkowitzer Eisenwerke. The meeting was attended by Minister Bertsch, Pleiger, Meinberg, Delius, Schmidt, and Kuchinka. At the beginning of the meeting Pleiger invited Mr K. to present the letters sent to the Reich Commissioner for the Treatment of Enemy Property, dated 27.6.44. had the copies of these books at hand, but they were in custody of Dr. Nowak, who was on leave a week ago. After some time these letters were collected and presented. Pleiger then read from them the passages dealing with the relationship between HGW/Witkowitzer Eisenwerke. It was established that K. In the main, two allegations against the HGw were made: 1. The management contract wielded HGW and Witkowitzer Gewerkscnaft was not only unnecessary, but also harmful to the vit-kowitz Gewerkescnaft. On this point, K. had signed the management contract voluntarily and without any objection or objection, and he would not have expressed any concern against this contract even a long time ago in a long discussion that Mr Pleiger had with him. This finding was confirmed by K..