English Translation

h Excerpt copy to II 2/1 - 1131/44 The Reichsstathalter in Oldenburg and Bremen, the 8. Mirz 1944 Bremen Schwachhauser Heerstr. 66 Landeswirtschaftsamt Waser-Ems Bremen V On 23. 2. In 1944, a Mr. Gär tner, m ch his message owner of a company Gär tner & Akkermann, Hamburg, appeared to me and explained that he had a large-scale deal with Prague, which was called Hermann Schulz. This company works in the closest consultation with the security service of the Reichsführer SS and the criminal police, buys exclusively goods of the black market in the protectorate and reports the purchases for the purpose of "combating the black markets" to the aforementioned places. In my opinion, such millions-businesses from which the In agreement with these German authorities, Schulz, Prague, sold the goods in Germany and made large deliveries, especially to Hamburg. However, it also supplied important quantities of goods of all kinds to other authorities. In 1943, the Reichsbehm received goods from it for more than 15 million marks. However, the main purchaser sets the Wehrmacht and here again the Luftwaffe. Mr. Gir tner explained that in Hamburg the acceptance of the goods was regulated in such a way that the purchase and distribution by the so-called so-and-so-so. In the case of industrial blocs, an institution created there after the heavy air raids of the previous year and which consists essentially of the fact that some operators were responsible for the supervision and accommodation of the people living in their bloc, these operators also ensured the reduction of the goods, whose purchase prices, because they come from the black market, are of course considerably higher than the German domestic prices. Even after Berlin, larger companies are selling electrotechnical articles, such as heating ovens. The companies themselves bear the price differences and sell the goods to their followers at the German domestic price. Mr Gürtner had come to me to submit to me for Bremen the proposal to organize in a similar way as in Harburg an additional supply to the population, in particular those who were injured by the aircraft.