English Translation

38 - 5 - The purchase sum should be redeemed in such a way that first RM: 1,000,000,-- should be paid in cash, of which again a partial amount with 200.o00,- - Dutch guilders. For payment of this sum SS-group leader Pohl SS- Oberführer von Gottberg handed over the foreign exchange permit obtained by him. SS Oberführer von Gottberg, together with SS group leader Pancke, now concluded a contract with van den Berg, to which l.oo0.00o,- RM. were paid out. The rest of the RM: 2,000,000,-- van denberg should be paid out of the profit to which the company to be founded. Since SS Oberführer von Gottberg and the settlement office SS did not have an amount of RM: l.o00.000,--, SS OberFührer of Gottberg turned to the Reichshandwerksmeister, who was in principle prepared to provide him with an amount from RM : l.300,000,-. However, the Reich Handwerksmaster could not personally give the money to SS Ober Führer from Gottberg. The Allod, Ges.m.b.H., Berlin, whose board was SS-Oberführer von Gottberg, was the borrower. SS- OberführER von Gottenberg now gave the amount of RM: 1,300,000,-- to the German Reichsverein, which had nothing to do with the business in itself. The German Reichsverein was only involved in the matter because SS-Oberführer von Gottberg needed legal personalities to carry out these transactions. Since, as already mentioned, the financing of the foot-and-mouth disease control in the form of a short-term loan from funds secured by the master of the Reichshandwerksmeister followed, the coverage of this amount was necessary for SS-Oberführer von Gottberg. SS-Hauptsturmführer Herzig, who was at that time the head of the Finanzwesen group at the Bodenamt, therefore proposed to take the RM: l.300.0o0,-- from a pond available to the ground office and the guilt