English Translation

HANS OLTMANN NIEMANN Prague, June 5, 1943. PRAG 1st P.O. Box 615 To the Ministerial Councillor Dr. Gies Pr_a_g_IV. Czernin Palais A few weeks ago I moved my residence to Prague and allowed myself to describe my following case.I lived for many years in Guatemala as a self-employed merchant and partner of one of the most important old German overseas houses. We had various coffee plantations and had an important export import business, cloth wholesale and were also representatives of almost all German and European insurance companies. At the outbreak of the war between Germany and the United States of North America, I was arrested in Guatemala for my Germanism and deported to North America where I was interned in a Neger breeding house. After various negotiations by the German Reich government, I had been exchanged at the end of last year and since then I have been back in Germany. Having lost all of my possessions through the war, I now want to build a new existence and was proposed by the NSDAP to arrange a former Jewish possession. I have contacted the executives here and I am interested in the company "Silesia ", Tuchgrosshandlung, Prague XI., Huttenstrasse 265, which I would like to purchase. Unfortunately, I have learned that this plant has been shut down in the last week and will bring the product existence to the Lyon silk house, Prague, which is also to be arranged. For this reason, I would be grateful if you would use me as an ariseur for the company "Silesia " so that the rest of the product existence will not be taken away and, naturally, I am only interested in a company with at least some kind of product existence. I inform you that I have a return-migration certificate: Nr. Hbg. l6886 and also hand you 1 letter of recommendation from the NSDAP, from which you can see that I have been recognized as a refugee. b.W.