English Translation

31 to preserve the painting in the gallery and to prevent its emigration corresponds to the position represented before 1938 and agrees with the objectives of the – still valid – monument protection law and the export ban law, while the "approval" granted by Hermann Göring was obviously a arbitrary act to favour the sale to Philipp Reemtsma. The intervention of Adolf Hitler against Jaromir Czernin's use of "Approval" by Hermann Göring cannot therefore be seen as an act of persecution directed against Jaomir Ccernin. Furthermore, the following activities of the (Vienna) Ministry of Internal and Cultural Affairs and the Central Agency for Monument Protection show that Adolf Hitler had to be won for a purchase, assuming that the net result to be achieved by Jaromir Czernin was equivalent to that of the failed sale to Philipp Reemtsma. In this regard, it should also be noted that Jaromir Czernin, among others, through his lawyers Ernst Egger and Fritz Lerche, also advocated the (replaceable) state purchase by means of pre-languages in the (Vienna) Ministry of Internal and Cultural Affairs on 5 January 1940 and in the Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung on 10 January 1940. In the following considerations concerning the financing of the purchase, in addition to a planned compensation for Jaromir Czernin with land ownership in the then protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the reduction of the inheritance fees incurred with the dissolution of the fideicommitte played a role. These considerations also contradict the assumption that the sale was carried out by force or force. In his order to acquire the art of painting for Adolf Hitler issued to Hans Posse on 26 September 1940, Martin Bormann expressly speaks of the fact that Jaromir Czernin for the present painting a purchase price of RM 1.4 million. plus RM 250,000,-, i.e. half of the expected inheritance fees in the amount of RM 500,000,- thus demand RM 1.65 million. If Martin Bormann in this internal letter to Hans Posse expressly speaks of purchase price claims Jaromir Czernins, this makes clear that the price was not determined against Jaromi Czernine's will. A comparison with the price demanded by Philipp Reemtsma also shows that Jaromir Czernin achieved a substantially comparable result. Indeed, a commission of RM 200,000 had to be paid of the purchase price of RR 2 million, which was demanded by Philip Reemthsma, which would have left RM 500,000,-- net RM 1.3 million after deduction of the then expected inheritance fee. (The amount of the purchase price offered by Philipp Reemtsma was assessed by Eugen Primavesi for: