English Translation

- 3 - the principle of performance does not apply, it would be safer to move to another class of civil servants with authorization certificates and certificates of examination. Dac's motive for the suicide of the criminal agent W i n - t e r b o r seems to lie in the matter of "Astoria-Bar". At the moment, however, the burden on us in this matter is mainly due to the statements made by the Czech police officer. However, it seems to me impossible that W i n t e r b o r his duties in the matter of "Astoria-Bar" had been carried out from the outset in such a way that the later owner B e c h e r had to come into the possession of the bar. The fact that W i n t e r b o r was present at the estimation commission set up by the Czech police, and allegedly pressed the price, does not mean that, according to the facts of the matter, there was much to be done; for shortly before (about 48 hours at most) his head of department had received the official mandate to participate in this estimate as an observer. This participation was not originally envisaged, so it is not acceptable that an agreement has taken place from a wider point of view. On the other hand, I think it is possible that the fact that something different has been kept free in the newly opened bar of B e c h e r and that a few plastic alcohols have been given outside, led him into an extraordinary confusion at the moment of the plague of Be c h er r. Otherwise, there was always anguish that no one could talk him into anything. With the possibility of discussing the acceptance of gifts, linked with possible extensions, W i n t e r b o r probably saw a big plan collapse in his study. Since these things all fell on one day, the motive could be to su- mate here. I have known W i n t e r b o r already since l935 from my position as head of the Kiel State Police Department. I have always held him to be a decent and also ideologically solid person, who, however, sometimes in Kiel because of a frantic family relationship, often at