English Translation

National Socialist German Workers' Party Gau Sudetenland Minister's Office Personal District Administration Pilsen i Elng : 1 6. OKT. 1944 To the Minister of State The District Leader SS Obergruppenführer 8 Karl Hermann Frank in Prague. Specify our number! 6 Our sign: 1/Z Your sign: PILSEN, den.. 13.10. 4. 3 .194. Reichsprotektorat. Object: e S2 Fernruf 2280 - 2294. Betr. Skodawerke, Pilsen. Prevented damage to gun steel A Obergruppenführer ! sste tromt The first days of October I learned that under both the Czech and partly the German followers of the Skoda works there is a great deal of indignation about one (preparation, which is so important to me that I came to the conclusion that after now having completed my examination, I would like to offer you personally. The Kreisobmann of the German working front appeared with me and announced the following: In a flight alarm during the day in September şich would have contributed the following : During the alarm the safety valves whistled at two steel melting furnaces, which both contained a total of 45.ooo - 5o.oo o kg of gun steel, as a sign that they are ready to be stabbed. As most of the following members had already left the halls due to the alarm, a Czech crane operator named Bohumil K h e k drew attention to some of the masters and workers who had just left and with them saved both the running steel of the one melting furnace and the other from the connection. Only after a few weeks had these men been called down by the Czech Khek to a law firm of the Skodawerke, where they offered every lo Zora-cigarette for this act. aXae1 St.M.V H-Y3a/44