STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2272, sig. 109-11/73

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21 all relations in vain;Ehrlich is married to a Jew's wife who died,has two Jewish children, conducts a war criminal life, was expelled from the party shortly before Christmas 1942, but became director of the mountain hut after Christmas 1942. Mr. Dr. Schicketanz,that I had always said that I would not have been filled in at the mountain hut, and therefore a Highness Officer would have called me in to the War District Command and therefore my convocation.I said that, of course, I also once said this in the presence of a High Authority and two Directors, since this is my duty,if one is not exhausted, to the Mr. Dr. Malzacher said at the end that I should stay at home in the afternoon because I will be informed about the appointment there. However, I did not receive any notice from Mr. v.Bardeleben and since I had to be set up at 7 o'clock in the morning next day, I tried in the evening to say and would only be my openness and that the German Wehrmacht was not a penal institute. At about 10 p.m. I reached Mrs. v.Bardeleben, who told me that her husband had left for Westphalia and that everything would be fine.Then I tried to reach Dr. Malzacher and received the notice that he had gone to the Slo-wakei.Finally I also reached Dr.Schicketanz, who asked with him what he saw with him. Mr. Dr. Schicketanz said that if I wanted to be honest with him, he would be sorry.In order to obtain a confirmation, I called the Wehrbezirkskommando-Teschen and received the notice that my case had been put in order this afternoon, it would probably have been two days before the meeting. Lords here and had given up a copy of the Scriptures and therefore did not need to be put up in the morning. On Sunday the 27th of June, I spoke again to Mr. Dr.llalzacher,as I went to Gleiwitz next day to take off my new position for the 1st of July 194z.Mr.Dr.Malzacher promised me to represent me there in all cases,if it was necessary to prevent even with the Reichstreuhänder in the given talle. On 28 June, in Gleiwitz, I was also shown the urgent request of the General Plenipotentiary-Chenie and made the entry date on 1 July. On June 29th, at 6 p.m., Mr. v.Bardeleben called me to you.Cramer and told me that he had to present me with a new situation, that I would now stop accordingly and should withdraw my resignation.I rejected this, since everything was legally established already and above all the debates with Mr. Gen. Dr. Malzacher were right. On June 30th I was asked by Mr. Zarycki (secretary of H. Dr. Schicketanz) to meet Dr. Schicketanz in Teschen.After several hours I was let in and it was explained to me literally in the presence of Mr. Zaaryeki fogendes:I would have written a Brier to Dr.Schieketanz (letter I attach here) what I was complaining about because of the military because of my family He would have had a lot of work with me to get me free again and could only tell me that this would have gone up to General Unruh.The thing would now be that by the bombings in the West, the military expansion buildings here (Karwiner Kokerei auf Barbaraschacht,Kokokerei in Berlin) would have been built. Mühr.-Ostrau and in Trzynitz) this would be a completely new point of view and only if I now took over all this work can I be put back to the UK. So I had to withdraw my resignation immediately.I made a remorse that I would have dipped with Mr. Gen.-Dir.Dr. Malzacher in a very different way three days ago, to which I was replied, that was a lie and Dr. lalzacher were not in the picture and would have just