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8907 6Sl St.M. IV M - 63 f/44 g. Prague, 11 May 1944. Secret FS: To the head of the security police and SD, 4-upper group leader and general of the police Dr. Kaltenbrunner, Berlin SW 11, Prince Albrecht Straße 8. Betr.: Witkowitzer Werke - Dr. Guido Schmidt, Berlin. The Witkowitzer Werke (Witkoitzer Bergbau- und Eisenhüttengesellschaft), whose Jewish owners Guttmann and Rothschild, handed over their trade union luxury to an English society before the outbreak of the war, have been headed since 1939 by Kuchinka, Director General from the Ostrava region. The position of these works within the production of armaments naturally resulted in close cooperation with the Reichswerke Hermann Göring. In 1943, the various efforts to establish this link led to the conclusion of a transfer contract between Witkowitzer Werke and Hermann Göring- Werke, according to which Hermann Göring-Werke took over the management of the entire assets and the operation of the Witcowitzer union. Supervision of the implementation of this contract has been entrusted to an administrator appointed by the Reich Commissioner for Enemy Assets in Berlin. This administrator has a three- ++++0035(E1NS) (1) 2068 13.5.44 NAGEL BERL1N UE+