English Translation

-4- I only learned this later. At the end of July the year, a certain Dr.jur applied. Herbert von Alten-Bockum with me in Vienna,with the request to be able to work in the Protectorate.Alten-Buckum came from the home in Reichenberg.Since he is an absolutely capable specialist man and I needed capable people, I hired him at the construction cooperative for bank and savings bank officials and gave him, together with a certain Joachim Lahsberg, authority to represent me in my absence. I was warned several times about Dr. von Alten-Bockum, but did not consider these warnings to be valid, since the relevant warners did not want to be mentioned and could not give any reasons either. In the meantime, I found that Dr.von Alten Bockum was deliberately sent to me through the homesteads in Reichenberg in order to slow down my work. I still kept him busy, because I had nothing to do with exposing Alten-Bockum, but I wanted to take his backmen with me. As evidence available so far, I state the following facts: 1./ Dr. von Alten-Bockum is still in constant exchange of ideas with the homestead in Reichenberg This fact, which cannot be rejected in itself, is alarmed by the fact that he always denied me his still existing relations with the Homestead on multiple questions. 2./ Shortly after the start of my work, I was commissioned by the Poldihütte in Kladno to plan and carry out a larger construction project for this company. After the planning and financing had already been completed, senior director K a s t e n m e r from the Pol- dihütte informed me that the Oberlandrat in Klatno had completed the Pol dihütte Forts 221