English Translation

The head of division VIII Prague, 20 March 1949 inistor office Mr. Chef 3 204 of the ministry in the house with l plant, which is handed back. Betr.: Posted railway wagons with eviction goods Note by the SS-Hauptsturmführer Kaltenberger III DK./WK of 17 March 1945 Like me on l6.3. 1945 to the Minister of State, had accumulated in the network of BMB 7 3oö wagons, which could not be fed to their recipients without further processing. For this purpose, it was necessary, by means of special commissions for about 5 Ooo wagons on the basis of the freight documents and by local sight, to determine the nature of the goods and to check the further use and forwarding of goods with the means of defence, armament, economy, food and agriculture, OT, rail. This inexhaustible work is almost complete; the last of these were the 7óo Wagen mentioned in the Vernerk on the Kuttental - Skalsko route, since they are still in the bandit-infested area near the front. In the course of this week, starting with yesterday, these 7oo cars are now being discarded and driven off. Personally, I have made a special effort to eliminate this congestion since, as a result of the partial elimination of the major damage to the Dresden railway systems, a decrease in the wagons intended for the rest of the Reich can be expected. This activity cannot naturally be recognized by the Office of Foreign Affairs/Jungbunzlau and leads them to the unfounded assumption that nothing has yet been done to remedy it. The planned implementation of the reprocessing programme is, among other things, based on the fact that the work carried out in my report of 16.3. İ945 vehicles on the route Kojetein - Nesamieslitz and Kojet ein - Tobitschau have since left and the cars on the closed off private railway Nesameslitz - Morko- witz will be in progress and will also have left until the day after tomorrow. Mtun 17 nf St.M.πX -33 c/45