English Translation

43 - 2 - As head of Group VIII - Finance - the IXth Section of the Ministry of Agriculture, I cannot be interested in secondary circumstances, as described in your note of 29 January l940. I must regard the declaration of the Reichsverein as binding on it. Should the Reichsverein be of the opinion that it is not obliged to repay the still unbalanced amounts on the basis of the declaration made by its Reichsführer of 23.l0. 193g, I ask that this be communicated to me immediately. I will then inform the Reich-Führer-SS. If the Reichsverein took over the non-domestic payments for self-repayment, this did not happen in order to contribute to the fact that the debt obligation received by the acting head of SS-Oberführer von Gottberg towards the Böhmisches Escompte-Bank regarding the above amounts on the account Separato finds its completion, but because the Reich association with the payment of K. 13.000.000,-- in connection. After the examination report of the economic lawyer Dr. Max Schortmann and the diploma Kauf- mannes Ney have been used to me for insight: 200,000,- / K. 2,000,000,-/ as foundation capital for the society for disease control Ges. m.b.H. Berlin. The founders of this company were the merchant Leonid Ehren- burg, Berlin, Wannsee, with a parent contribution of RM: l.ooo,-- and the German Reichsverein für Volkspflege und Siedler-hilfe e.V., Berlin with a family contribution of rm: l99.O00,- A further amount of Rm: 1,000,000,- / 1.000.000,- K./ is on the basis of the contract concluded by the German Reixhsverein for Volkspfflege and Siedlerhilfe,Berlin with Johannes van den Berg from the l0. The remaining balance of RM: L00.000,-/K. 1.000.000,- is also, as far as I am informed by SS- Hauptsturmführer Herzig and from your own statements,