English Translation

4.) At the 31st I.43 in question the following guests were present: %%-Sturmbannführer Gassebner, Oberdirektor der Brünn Waffenwerke, mit Frau, %-SturmbannFührer Kluckhohn, Adjutant des Reichsprotektors %%%-HauptsturmführER Guttenbrunner mit Frau; Freiherr von Mumm from the Ringhofer company; Miss von Tipppelskirch; the niece of the then power-enforced Lieutenant General Toussaint, a German doctor whose name is no longer remembered; 2 older bomb-damaged ladies from the Ruhr district Heimath of Mr. Becker, dzt. living with him, my wife and I. Gassebner and I drove shortly after midnight to G. summarized his judgment about the evening there: both of us talked about weapons, but otherwise you don't want to talk funny, but it has been bad So there was no reason for me to take offense at this kind of common conviviality. Whether Becker celebrated other parties to his business friends is not known. I thought Becker was an honest old building, which makes an untalented and less intellectual impression. Some time later, Becker asked me personally for such a statement. He had been slandered by the party because of a "fest". I had no doubts about giving a statement on the basis of the above case 1) to 4). After further rumors of proceedings against Becker came to my ears later, I asked B.d.S. personally. When I learned that there was a reasonable suspicion about the business of Pg. Becker, I stopped the traffic to the House of Becker and banned these gentlemen of my staff. I had this told Mr. Becker telephonically with the request to inform me if the procedure was to work well for him. I myself was transferred to the front shortly after the beginning of April 1943. My then adjutant, %%-headsturmführer Guttenbrunner, had already gone wrong in the House of Becker.