English Translation

bv SA- Standartenführer DIPL. ING. WOLFGANG jureferring, .. 20. December 1940 Gauwirtschaftsberater Fernruf 3811 M. d. R. 2 Personal! Mr. State Secretary K. H. Fr ank SS Group Leader Prague Na Zatorce 11 Dear comrade Frank! As I already told you by telephone today, in the course of the desired transfer of Weinmann's shares to the sales trustee Rittstieg, the following happened: Am l6. In a large meeting, which took place in the presence of the relevant expert of the Gestapo, you decided completely clearly that after the receipt of the declaration requested by the Reichsprotektor by the Minister of Finance, the Jewish shares of the West Bohemian Mining Association and the Dux Bodenbacher Railway to the sales representative Dr. In spite of this clear decision, the Gestapo office in Prague sent a letter to the Minister of Finance of the Reich dated 26 January 1991. the wish expressed not to carry out the transfer of shares to the seller's trustee and at least to postpone the sale of the company until the end of the war. In addition, the administrator, Mr Urban, appointed by the Gestapo at Weinmann, intervened with the head of the mining department of the Reichswirtschaftsminister, to which Werner, Müller and Billing had joined, and which had the purpose of preventing the execution of the shares to the seller. The head of the mining department of the Reichswirtschaftsministerium, Mr. Ministerial Conductor Gabel, has, on the basis of the documents already published by the Protector and Reichsminister für Wirtschaftsminister: \M