English Translation

23 - 2 - ner /Amtswalter in der Volksgruppenführung/, however, prevents this dismissal. 4 days later, general leader Keusen explains that a misunderstanding had occurred. The travel papers sent to the sisters did not have the sense that they should go to the Reich immediately. There is no way to verify the correctness of this new claim. In fact, the Beschkereker hospitals from September 8th are without sufficient nurses, which soon had a fatal effect on the extraordinary seizure of wounded people. There is no doubt that a few days of headlessness in leading places of the DRC have cost many soldiers their lives. Since the impression exists that the central offices in Vienna and Berlin are not informed about the real situation in the Banat, the student Schams travels to the Reich as a courier in order to admit various letters and reports or to post. On the same day a heavy Anglo-American air attack on the Betschkerek airport in Etschka takes place. All German planes will be destroyed, as the officers and crews are drunk in the kukuruz. It is found that after the attack officers and soldiers are happy about the destruction of their planes, since they now see a reason to leave the banat. The explanations of the members of the Luftwaffe cause a panic in the village. Members of the Luftwaffe, in particular officers, explain to the people that the Russians were standing in front of Temeshburg, that the population was now lost. Those who were not motorized could not save themselves any more. The panic in the village leads to numerous farmers and peasant women constricting. However, after they are told that they do not come across the border at Rudolfsgnad, they stretch out again and calm down gradually. 9.9.1944 SS-Hauptsturmführer Lang and Prof. Beyer go to a meeting with group leader Behrends to Belgrade. The situation is being discussed, especially about the psychological situation. Gruppenführer Behrends strictly adheres to the ban on evacuation and declares that the one who thanks for the evacuation is ultimately a defaitist. Before the meeting, Gruppen Führer has whistled at a Obersturmführers of the Waffen-SS, because he had expressed himself that if Belgrade were not defended, the Russians could only be stopped at Vienna. The meeting shows, after all, that group leader Behrends subsequently authorized the construction of the bridge and promised to stand up to the Belgrade services for the preservation of this bridge. A large action against Temeschburg is being prepared. Gruppenführer Behrends consists of a few small units of police as well as a few companies of German crew born l925/26, who were in training for a few days, the so-called fighting group Behrendens. The preparations of the fighting group cause the greatest surprise to those members of the ethnic group leadership who were officers in the field. Ic of the fighting group becomes the criminal assistant SS-Hauptsturm-führer Schrader /BdS Belgrade branch Betschkerek/, although he did not serve