English Translation

M - 5 - 105-1 to provide maximum war material, which the works can produce. Only the civilian sector of trade and payments would be handled via the German-Slovak clearing with the tendency to balance. If Slovakia is frozen, the expenditures for the Wehrmacht, which have so far been dominant in the budget, would be dealt with. In the interests of a more rapid enrichment of the country, the Slovak budget could be kept in order in the case of a semi-normal economy, despite the extraordinary benefits that are now to be transferred to it. g) Investigation of the responsibility of the German representative authorities in Slovakia for the inadequate defense of the Slovak revolutionary movement. The subversive movement, which led to the current uprising, was known for many years and days. However, no faith was found in the German legation. When German blood flowed in Central Slovakia, envoy Ludin negated the existence of a partisan movement in a meeting of the A.O. of the NSDAP. Business leaders (the board of the Eisenwerke of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring ironworks belonging to the group Podbrezova) who wanted to inform him two days before the betrayal of the Slovak Wehrmacht about the conditions and ask for protection, were repulsed and refused the audition with the envoy. The Germans in Slovakia would lose faith in justice if this behaviour, which, in my experience, is not isolated in the South-East European region, would not lead to an in-depth investigation and punishment of the guilty. Vienna, September 7, 1944.