English Translation

Prague, 30.6.1943. Note. Betr.: Hearing of the prisoners of war members of the Czech military unit in the Red Army. On 23rd, 25th and 28th June 1943, the three prisoners of war of the Czech military unit were interrogated in the Red Army by the High Command of the Wehrmacht. The interrogation was carried out by the criminal superior Bauer at the secret state police station in Prague. Mr Major de Kratochvil took part as the representative of the defence station in Prague. I was present at the main stages of the interrogation. 1.) On 23.6.1943 the corporal Karl Egger was first heard. As to the person of the Egger it had to be established that he is not Czech but a full Jew. In his statements Egger confirmed essentially the already known information, which he had given to the representative of the Foreign Office at the PZAOK IV on 17.3.1943. I asked Egger more specific questions about the reasons for his arrest by the GPU and his sentence to three years of forced labour, after all, he should have been well received as a Jew in the Soviet Union. Egger stated that he had been considered a German and a German spy as a result of his German name, and that he also had always pretended to be a Czech and that only then did he know Judaism when a Jewish commissioner attended the interrogation. When he offered to him to determine the irreproachable proof of Jewish racial affiliation for every Jew, he was blushed and had left the room.