English Translation

159a Development of the question Witkowitz was mentioned below. In recent times it has been possible to prevent the absorption of the possession of Count Wilczek by Hermann Göring's works and to postpone the displacement of the directors-general of the Ferdinands-Nordbahn from this area by the Hermann Göring-Werke. In both cases, the intervention of the German administration in Bohemia and Moravia has undoubtedly served both the development of the war economy and the political development of this region. Consequently, in the Witkowitz case, it seems necessary to keep the guidance in hand and to keep an absorbing of the individuality of Witcowitz's works by Hermann Göring-Werke in the right place. Such an opinion, as it must be stressed, does not in any way complicate, but on the contrary ensures, the equipment production of these essential plants. Experience shows that the constantly repeated personal combinations, which often result from the emergence of very young, no-one from important employees of the Council of State Pleiger in Witkowitz repeatedly receive new nourishment, only lead to an irritation of the leading gentlemen, who have to separate a large part of their energy from work and use it either to defend their position, or to constant balan-attitudes between the probably significant or victorious forces. Such phenomena are highly undesirable from the point of view of total warfare. Therefore, the administration acts in the interests of the war economy, when there is a pressure for far-reaching stability in the Ostrava region. To illuminate the seriousness of the concerns that exist here, the following incident is mentioned. The former Jewish Director General Sonnenschein used a German official named Barfuss as an information person about the attitude and management of German officials of Witko- witzer Werke.The son of this barfus, Ing. Barfu sss, certainly stepped