English Translation

Copy. 22 Supplement to the Z._E-1665-7/3-4Q. Minutes taken with the green goods dealer and motor vehicle entrepreneur Franz B a t r 1 a , born on l8./l. l9ol in Witkowitz, Moravian-Ostrava district, thereself competent, residing in Czech Republic Nc. 28, Ledetsch district on the Sasau, married, owner of a truck company, breadwinner of his wife and a child, Czech nationality, allegedly undisclosed. Subject of the interrogation: Shooting in the Neuwirtshaus /Na Nové Hospodě/ on 8 October l939. Between the Neuwirtshaus and Jessenitz near Prague there was a collision of my truck with a foreign truck, /owner O.Jech from Prague/, in which I suffered injuries to the head and quenchings of the chest and stomach. In the car there was the farmer Zíka from Jirsenthal, who also suffered lighter injuries. I sent this one with a passenger car that drove by, to Chechstitz, so that my spouse could get me with a second motor vehicle. I myself waited at the motor vehicle for the arrival of the auxiliary car. At around 24 o'clock a private car of the brand TAtrA passed by, in which uniformed listeners of the rich German NsDAP sat. They stopped and asked me if I needed help. One of them told me I was pale and if I didn't want to drink a bowl of hot tea or coffee, and offered to take me to a nearby tavern that was still open. I agreed and sat in the car. The man who had asked me to ride with him steered the car and there was another lady in the car besides him. The other two stayed with my