English Translation

53a. The formula: to raise the children entrusted to me to good Czechoslovaks, I refused and was then released from school service. At a request of my father for repayment of the pension fund contributions paid since 1909 I was informed that after signing under the oath formula I should receive 2,000,-- ch. Kronen (1923) severance pay. Since I did not make this signature, I didn't think anything. I notice that at this time - for this amount - I could have bought a fruit product of 20 - 30 mornings and at the same time I worked as a construction worker to be able to spend time in my life. In the following time, in which I tried to live completely into the gardening profession, I experienced severe hostility from the professional gardener side and in 1933 they tried to push me completely out of the gardener's profession because my abandoned gardening examination was invalid, because I never worked as a gardener apprentice. It was not until 1939 that, on the basis of the order that old gardeners who could not prove any years of apprenticeship but who had worked for 20 years, could receive recognition as a gardener's teacher, that the Thuringian peasantry had this status. In January 1940, I returned to service at the front, and during a bridge-building battalion, I participated in the battles on the western front, in the south-east, and am currently standing in the east. At this time, my civilian post in the hinterland is so troubled that I am not able to return to it, so that I will probably be without permanent employment after the end of this war. On the basis of the above, I ask for my claims to be fulfilled in the sense of this decree and in due time for a re-use in a state service, as SudetenGerman preferably again in the border country. I was born on 1.4.1890 in Juratin, district Tachau, Sudettenland; married since 1937, father of two boys aged 12 and 6 years. I am just as much of a grey Aryan descent. Party member since 193s. since 1 May 1933. ALOAM Ivre Ohiul 27367 Archla RSU Gylu.w. se. Hrlls. Loll:leet.