English Translation

32 - 7 - the reports received by my group administrators that most of the clothing : shoes almost 1 00 %, coats about 80 %, blouses and trousers 50 %, etc. were missing. With the management leaders of the groups who made the advance, we could not establish a connection just during the dissolution of the Free Corps during days. The order of the chief of staff captain a.D. Pfrogner of the Freikorps, that the equipment and registration at the SA-services to be delivered and taken into custody from these, did not reach all the leaders of the groups until later or at all. The leaders of Verw. had therefore to act initiatively, which followed only with the group Vienna. The guide established the collection points immediately after the dissolution of the Preikorps. Therefore, he has also the smallest loss of clothing to us equipment to register. Despite all this, these also lie here between 20 and 70 % of the spent areas. On the basis of this situation and of my authority to do so, I now offered to the OSAF 60% of the amount of damage invoiced. It was only after an oral debate with the representatives of the OsAF took place at the end of March that I was able to obtain a renounciation, which was certainly favorable for us and granted us the deduction of 33 1/3 %. ...........RM47l.000.-- I could convince that the Free Corps was not an exclusively military, but mainly a political, political, and political body.