English Translation

Copy KLV.-District Commandant Bad Podiebrad Betr.: Death Ogurek. On Sunday, May 17, 1942, I found myself on the occasion of the visit of the district leader Pgn.Fritzemeier, the Bannmadel leader Pnn.Bierbrauer and the girl ringing guide Pgn . Vahlkampf on an inspection walk through the camps of my district, when I received the report at l6,15 clock that the Jg. Winfrid Ogurek from the KLV. camp "Relaxation home" drowned in the Elbe. I immediately went to the accident site to do the necessary investigations and arrange for the body to be searched. For example, the Czech gendarmerie asked to make the individual electricity monitoring stations in Neuchâtel and Brandeis mobile, and later this notification was extended to the Elbe up to the protectorate limit. Immediately after the accident became known, I informed the inspector Pg.Berlau, who later arrived in Podiebrad to convince himself of the state of things, until the end and also on the 18th of May, the body of Jg.Ogurek was not yet found despite the intensified search. The flood - 1.95 m above normal level - also does not allow the hope of finding the body. My negotiations with divers to look for the body on the Wehr itself remained unsuccessful, because the divers in question rejected a search for the particularly raging, low water at the Weir as impossible and hopeless. Later I started the medical examination of the two involved Jgg. Gunter Böttcher and Heinz Meier by our senior camp physician, senior physician Dr. Haedicke, who remained without special findings. However, the transfer of the Jgg to the hospital area was carried out on Monday morning in order to be able to carry out a precautionary monitoring. Both are however very well. In conclusion, I would like to point out that everything has been done, both by me and the responsible district commander, and by the camp leaders, before the accident.