English Translation

Pray, 25.7.4940 66 Ministerial Conductor Dr. Bertsch Head of Division II on Group II/4 Czernin - Palais . Betr.: State-controlled German wage policy; here : Result of the meeting of 22.7.40 at the Reichsarbeitsministerium , Ministerial Director Dr. Bertsch informed me today as a result of his meeting with Secretary of State Dr. Syrup in Berlin said that the Reichsarbeitsministerium would appoint a suitable official to serve as section head in the Ministry of Social and Health Administration in Prague. Bertsch is aware that my memo of 3.7.40 On the outcome of my discussion on 2.7.40 in the Reichsarbeitsministerium (Federal Ministry of Labour) on the implementation of the government-led German wage policy according to the occupation of the participants at that time is based on mis-understandings. In particular, the gentlemen involved in the meeting on 2.7.40, who also participated in the discussion between Dr Syrup, Secretary of State, and Dr Bertsch, Ministerial Conductor, on 22.7.40, had been raised against the text of points 5.6 7 and 8 of my memo. Since the impression must have arisen that I was not able to give the result of the meeting of 2.7.40 correctly, or if the result had been reinterpreted in the personal interest, I hereby make the following declaration of service : 1.) I made the memo of 3.7.40 on the request of 2.7.40 to the best of my knowledge and conscience. 2.) I immediately forwarded the memo to Mr Reichsarbeitsminister, at the hands of the then negotiator, the Ministerial Director of the Council of State Professor Börger, on 3.7.40.