English Translation

22a not generally out, because the events on the Danube in Bechkerek and in the northern banat are not considered decisive, as long as the situation in Temeshburg is unresolved. A radio message of the leader is known, in which it is ordered that no German should fall into Soviet-Russian hands. The radio saying explicitly calls Transylvania, but then distinguishes Romanian and Serbian Banats whether it is possible to make no distinction between the Serbian and Romanian Banat militarily. It is discussed who has presented this fas- sation of the radio saying to the leader. It is believed that it was some bureaucrat from the Foreign Office who may believe that the Soviet troops will stop at the Romanian border. It is regretted that the leader did not look at the map during the signing of this radio message, he would have immediately seen that it is senseless to make a difference between the Serbian and the Romanian Banat. Certain parts of the Serbian Banat, such as the corner near Weisskirchen, are more threatened than the Banat Heath north of Hatzfeld, which belongs to the Romanian Banat. On the same days the ethnic group leader had an interview with group leaders Behrends, in which group leaders told Behrendings that no railway trains were provided, even for the evacuation of children and pregnant women. It is the impression that group leaders, through their bans on evacuation, are putting an unnecessary tightening in the whole situation. However, the ethnic leadership cannot be prevented by these bans from intensifying internal preparations. It is decided to build a pontoon bridge at Aradatz west of Betschkerek. 2 7.9.1944 9 Gruppenführer Behrends declares that it is go to lo for a stay in the Banat. At the same time, however, it is established that the Reich Germans leave the Banate. Military services also begin to evacuate. The Luftwaffe hospital Betschkerek cleans up on the basis of an alleged instruction. Rohnsdorff /from Berlin/ abandons his private patients and doesn't even say goodbye to his German colleague, who therefore only learned after 2 days that there are still private patients in the air force hospital who have been without medical care for 2 days. During the transport from the Luftwaffe hospital only Reichsdeutsche are taken, even Genesene, while people-German seriously wounded members of the Waffen-SS are returned in Betschkerek. Dr. Rohndorff, by the way, later from Vienna informed the sister Elvira that she would collect the due fees from the private patients and get him bacon and other things. The DRK sisters leave the Banat on the basis of an instruction of the General Leader of the DRK, SS-Sturmbannführer Keusen, so that the SS hospital and other institutions remain without trained forces. 3 sisters, however, refuse and remain out of their own sense of responsibility in Banat Angeerdnet was also the dismissal of the popular German DRK-sisters. Cherry 49846