English Translation

3. % - 4 - Jewish property, which was worked on and processed according to the same scheme as was proposed at the time for church property. Since the original activity of the German Reichsverein within the Bodenamt was operated under the name Reichsverband for internal political reasons and not under the official name of a German authority or department, this fell away now, and the new works moved entirely within the scope of the Boenamt, Group IX. So far about the actual statutory task of the Reichsverein and about the connection Reichsverband-Bodenamt. In June l939 SS-Oberführer von Gottberg, outside his position as chairman of the Imperial Association, learned of an allegedly 100 % secure means against the mouth and claw disease, which a Dutch pharmaceutical, van den Berg, was supposed to have brought together. Since at this time the foot-and-mouth disease in the German Reich was still in terrifying proportions and millions of the people's wealth were thus being taunted, SS-Oberführer von Gottberg decided to study the means more closely. Numerous meetings took place between van den Berg and SS Oberführer von Gottberg, after SS group leader Pohl had already tried to acquire the funds for himself. Although SS group leader Pohl already had a foreign exchange permit of 200,000 Dutch guilders in his hands for the production of the money and for the purchase of the recipe, the business did not come about because SS group driver Pohl proposed some contract terms which were not acceptable to the Dutchman. The position of these conditions may be explained by the fact that SS group leader Pohl already had doubts about the effectiveness of the remedy at that time. SS Oberführer von Gottberg, after the negotiations with SS group leaders Pohl had broken down, carried out various attempts, which allegedly showed a full success. Quickly decidedly bought SS Oberführer von Gottberg the funds by an amount of RM 3,000,000,--