English Translation

Copy of the transcript. SV Asch (ČsR), on 3 June 1934 Rudolf Panzer Gerbermeister Asch in Bohemia Karlsgasse 17/191 Legally sworn expert in the case of leather high-wohlborn Dr. E. B e n e s c h Minister of Foreign Affairs of the ČSR in P r ag. Dear Foreign Minister! Please excuse me if I ask you for your good grace to hear my sincere request. In the desperation of my state of life, I ask you, dear sir, to believe me, what I am writing to you, I would recognize myself punishably if I did not write the truth. I belong to a very old family in Ash, which was always good, I do not belong to any party nor to a pol. I have built a factory that would be viable, but when I had finished building and demanded the mortgage that was promised to me, I did not get it, so I have spent all the available capital and now stand there without money and, so to speak, became a beggar, with a great possession; my workers get support, but I am not, my father is 76 years old and is sick, also the mother, not only of the worries, but also of hunger, and no one shows mercy, and everyone believes that we might be rich, people who wanted to help cannot, because they again have nothing. I therefore allow myself to address to you the great request, help us, my parents own on the factory company a mortgage of 55o.ooo Kč, which is not defensible, I could not get a debenture from any Sparkassa or bank, you are so good and lend me through a bank an amount on this mortgage of 50o.OOo Kč security, only for two years, because then I certainly hope to have your own liquid funds again in order to be able to repel your valuable credit. Because my parents only need working capital for their company, then everything is running and I could put my dismissed workers back into operation. We would pay back the interest and capital fairly and would also give support to the Czech poor in our best efforts out of gratitude, so I ask you for your precious favor, help me, because you would not only help me alone. I would also personally reward your precious favor by having you build a memorial stone where you once crossed the border from Asch to Bavaria, when war was, I would have been given for your support me /