English Translation

10a -aedütadied zeb baneibiereda e-Telapequp blad funds clearly subordinated. From the further remarks it was clear that originally the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle planned to formally dissolve the ethnic group leaderships.With regard to the express wish of 44-Obergruppenführer Frank that the ethnic leadership of the Serbian Banat of the ethnic Germans housed in Bohemia and Moravia remained, this radical plan was apparently dropped. It seems that the ethnic group leaders will remain in office as ethnic group leader, but in Vienna they will join the staff of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle. In Vienna, the VolksDeutscher Mittelstellen will be expanded, which is already expressed in the fact that -Obersturmbannführer R i e m a n n® will stay in Vienna for a long time with interruptions. However, there is no complete clarity about the arguments of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle. For example, the head of the financial department of the People's German Mittelstellen, L o h r, clearly explained that he no longer made any money available for the ethnic group leaders and ethnic group leaderships. The ethnic leaders and their employees have no functions in the Reich and should live their lives on the path of professional work. In the discussion it was then pointed out that the Volks- deutsche Mittelstelle will issue a joint magazine for all south-eastern German evacuations. In the course of this summer he was assigned to the Banat observer in Betschkerek on the initiative of the People's German Central Office. Since he has completely failed in this function, he was made available again by the Volksgrup- penführer of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle before the evacuation. It can be proved that Lange is defaitist. For a long time, however, during his months-long stay in Betschkerek, he did not write a line, but filled the newspaper with excerpts from foreign leaves. He belongs journalistically to the lowest group of ungifted German newspapermen, but has the great advantage for μ-Obersturmbannführer Riemann that as a member of the Hauskompanie der Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle he is subject to the command of the Volksdutchen Mittelstellen. Janko objected to the commission of Lange and explained that for the newspaper only the main author Hans T h u r m, - 2 - 7747°