English Translation

58 3 II.) The pig has been properly bought with official final certificate by a German good in Bohemia. According to the procedure usual in the Old Kingdom, a copy of the final certificate must be forwarded by the exhibitor of the same to the relevant agency as an application. In this case, the seller should have done so. I was not aware that this was handled differently, so I had to send a copy of the final s&heine to the statistical office of the city of Prague as a buyer.Also by our timely registration of the poultry and the cows with the Bohemian Moravian trade associations and by the fact that my family did not obtain food cards for meat among other things, it should be convincingly proven that there was only a technical error here. This was also due to the fact that I am wrongly chosen on this issue by an official of the municipal economic office Prague - Dewitz. On notification of the chickens, this official expressly stated that as a member of the German Wehrmacht I do not need to register cattle. Nevertheless, I insisted on the acceptance of this notification, since I believe that we are obliged to deliver a certain quantity of eggs from the chickens. To this end, the necessary basis for calculation was then to be provided. Also, this charge has always been done properly and to the fullest extent. From all this it should also be clear and correct that this successive notification to the various authorities is based on the complexity of the Czech economic apparatus, which I naturally do not know, and its very complex forms of procedure. The complexity of the operation in the statistical office of the city of Prague alone is illustrated by the fact that even Professor Pfitzner's surveys at his own statistical office failed to establish that the cows were already registered there on 1.9.l942 and not only on 14.9.l942.