English Translation

165 The Dberland Councillor R Inspehteur drs Beutschen Minister of State 15 March for Bohemia and Moravia Moravian-Dstrau, the 1944 in Moravian Dstrau Repentant Rathaue Tgb.No.755/44g Fenfprecher 23.45 Mr. Geheim mtAn den LN Herrn Deutschen Staatsminister 17. MRZ. 1944 für Böhmen und Moravian $S-Obergruppenführer K.H. F a n k In P r a g . Subject : Witkowitzer Werke. 753/44 g. Am l3. d. Mts. met the former Minister Guido dr td with General Director Kuchinka. It was possible to hold a fleeting exchange of ideas with Schmidt. He explained that his appointment as administrator of Witkowitz was in principle already approved and that he intended to carry out his task in close agreement with the State Council Pleiger. He also pointed out that the Reichskommissar for the treatment of the enemy's property, Secretary of State Krohn, would go to the Minister of State for a discussion of the matter of Witkowitz in the nearest days in Prague. Schmidt was pointed out that in the Witkowitz affair there is a view that the most important task of an armament plant such as Witcowitz is to increase the production of arms. If Hermann Göring-Werke were to intervene in this direction, this would be very much to be welcomed in the interests of the Reich and this area. However, there is the impression that up to now, M.NM-63/44g has been mainly responsible for the effects of the transfer agreement.