English Translation

THE OBERLANDRAT Gesch.Nr.3-1-2. Jitschin, 4 April 1941. M Subject: Mood of the Bessarabian Germans,in Koshatek. On 1.4.41 I visited the joint camp of the bess-arabia Germans. I noticed that the mood among the camp inmates is bad. In particular, the women seem to me to be very excited and upset. In essence I was told the following: 1./ There would be too little to eat. In particular, there was a lack of bread. it miiun. 2./ The camp inmates spoke out against the community life. Each family wants to live for itself and have at least 1 room. I have been told several times that one has had enough of the former camp life Non Heirigar - and that the prospect of another $1 - 2 years of community life / as long as it will take for the farms and auruing rng residential buildings to be built / unbearable. midhill Aia atuy 3./ The camp inmates have explained to me that after 125 years of colonist existence in Bessarabia they now have a right to live in the midst of German people. They do not want to be colonists in Czech surroundings again. They would have had it well in Bezsarabien; the Romanian population had behaved against them over decently. Now they would have to find PiflAng that they had a much worse existence in the midst of an hostile Czech dipi tiHf population than in ilga. Bessarabia. This could not lie in the sense of the leader, who had only called them to give them a better existence. drd-w 4./ In the former camp in the Ostmark they were promised ihafipl milme- that they would come to the Warthegau. Hpofun. their relatives were there too. They want this promise to be kept in the same way. Moreover, a veritable camp psychosis seems to prevail, which is expressed in hypersensitivity, frictions and stingings. Some women told me it was ./. simple