English Translation

C These difficulties are not inconsiderable because it is not easy to determine the cause of death and perpetrators. The general state of the proceedings now seems to be as follows : 1. In many cases, the offenders have not yet been identified. Whether this will still be possible appears questionable at present. 2. In the lighter cases, limitation or amnesty will have taken place. 3. (a) Where there are legal obstacles to the collection of claims, then the procedure must be initiated, but with a justification which is objectively satisfactory. b) If the suspicion of a prosecutable act is justified, then the procedures must be carried out as before. < If the documents in the file are often quite poor, the main negotiation gives nevertheless always an image of the events at that time. The atonement then also does not remain. In my opinion, the pacification of the Protectorate cannot be affected by these procedures, because criminal proceedings which have become necessary since the existence of the protectorate do not insignificantly exceed the number of Liguidation proceedings from the State of the annexation.