English Translation

00 then General Speich reported to the Magistrates branch in Dewitz the yorhandenness of one pig and two cows. /He had already been reported by him earlier, / He then intervened in person with the head of the municipal statistical office, the Czech Magistrate D.Müller, and also took a shot at me. He talked to me about the fact that a Czech Commission had come to him and that there were also two uniformed Polisiatians. I understand from the report of the Council of Ministers Müller that he had now contacted the German director of the Central Statistical Office, Dr. Wirt, and had received from him the order not to follow the case further. I have already given Müller the same order. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that this is about a case that would be punishable by a serious penalty and that has also been punished in many cases. I know from other sources, of course, the great passion of General Speich for agriculture and have just been sincerely pleased about this connection to the soil. On the other hand, I believe that such cases do not raise the German reputation in any direction, but above all offer the Czechs desired agitation material, but also German peoples are repeatedly offered grounds for complaining that double scales are being handled, especially since døch is probably certain that General Speich has to the full extent obtained the food cards from the military authorities. As much as I would like to ask you, Mr Secretary of State, to leave the case on its own, I cannot fail to ask for the following oral instruction 34203 for my part in order to avoid similar cases in the future: Germans cannot be excluded from the controls carried out by the Magistrates on the basis of ministerial orders of this and similar nature. However, it is necessary to ensure that only commissions of non-uniform members, headed by a German official, are active, especially in the case of highly regarded German personalities of public life.