English Translation

24 ING.KARL KUCHINKA MAHR-OSTRAU-10, 20 August 1942. DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE LERURENE-AAENNCE-LRCAAEE BU a das Coa Siehcetärs Dear Secretary of State! lo ca 22.AUG.1942 u As I have come to know, the wealth office of the Reichsprotektor intends to make an offer about the inventory of the so-called castle in Witkowitz, which serves as a service home of the respective general director of the Witcowitz trade union and as a representative accommodation for high-ranking employees, after which, among other things, all pictures, sculptures, display case pieces Leuchter and others. as well as all silver objects / cutlery, service, lampstands / are to be delivered from the castle and part of the museum of the town of Moravia, partly to the wealth office of the Reichsyrotektor. The rest of the inventory is to be sold to the Witkowitzer union at estimated value. If this decision were to be made, the result would be that the premises of the castle would become unusable. Thus, the Witkowitzer Gewerkschafft would lose the only semi-representative premises. Although an essential part of the furnishings of the castle has undoubtedly been acquired by means of the Witkowitzer Gewerkschaft, I have expressed to the wealth office of the Reich Protector the willingness to pay a sum of compensation for these objects. At the same time, I have asserted the demand of the Witkowitzer union against Oskar Federer in the amount of about..........K 1,ooo.0o0.--, whose satisfaction has been rejected by the wealth office with the indication that the Reich is not liable for these debts. It is therefore a very strange situation for the Witkowitz union by applying this with its own money - ./. 1 M-178qu/42