English Translation

The Alovak Bata-Gesellschaft can provide evidence that it has made very significant contributions to the German economy up to now through supplies of raw and finished goods; it has also accepted the advanced German workmates of the Bata A.G. in Zlin by providing love gifts. Of the 15 leading personalities of the Slovak Bata Society, 8 Slovaks are 4 German 3 Czechs. The claim that the financing of the Partisan Uprising had been made by the fact that the Bata people's course prior to the uprising had lifted particularly high amounts from their con- tis is incorrect. The interest of the guerrillas in the Simonovany plant, in which the Slovak war minister who went to the partisans personally called for the nearby military camp to revolt, lay in the possibility of taking: 1/ Arbiş boots from the shoe factory and sales outlets for the equipment of partisan 2/ food and cattle from the Bata goods and Bata warehouse, 3/ bed linen and blankets from Bata internates 4/ construction equipment for the construction of the BATA building department, 5/ cars and car tires, oil and gasoline from the bata plants. The Schadén, which has been prepared in the factory by means of extractions, amounts to 35 000 000.- Kn. The Batovany plant has taken the work voluntarily again for a long time and should be able to regain its full capacity once the necessary raw material cover has been recovered.