English Translation

- 4 - In popular German circles the military situation is discussed vividly later and pointed out that despite the statements of group leaders Behrends the situation is extremely serious: the Russians are already standing at the Iron Gate, at Nisch and Negotin the connection between Tito and the Red Army is established, the Hungarians had to clear Arad and the Russian's head in a north-western direction. The hope of the legendary armored army to perform miracles is considered vain. In general, one is convinced that in the Serbian Banat, despite the best preparations that could guarantee an impeccable execution of the evacuation if the order is given in time, exactly the same catastrophe will occur as in the Romanian Banat because one no longer has the confidence to the relevant rich authorities that they control things with the necessary control and the necessary sense of responsibility. For reasons of discipline, however, something self-employed is not done. Especially great is the distrust against group leaders Behrends. As his representative in the questions of interest at the moment has been working for more than a week Brigade leader Fiedler, who makes a good impression, but takes care of all the details, instead of really clarifying the fundamental questions. He is also bound by his hands because he has to obtain the approval of Belgrade for all the problems that are only half-important. He organizes a "leadership staff" that claims to be the top priority for all issues of evacuation. However, this leadership staff Fiedler soon came into conflict with the VoMi, who meanwhile also sent a commando, which is under the leadership of the main storm leader Pachschwöhl. As alleged special representative of the Reichsführer SS, StandartenführER Weigen appears in Betschkerek to discuss the situation. Very soon, however, it turns out that Staf too. Weigen has no real powers. All Ss leaders who are used for evacuation purposes are bound by instructions from higher authorities, so they cannot decide at all on the spot. The action of the VoMi command begins with some measures for evacuation in the Romanian Banat. It turns out that both the commander, chief storm commander Pachschwöhl, as well as the representative, Obersturmführer Köhli, are of the best will. At the same time, however, it becomes clear that the command sent out by VoMi is far too small to be able to solve the tasks that occur in the south-east after the entire popular front has started to roll. Hauptsturmführer Pachschwöhl complains that one is so unreasonable in Berlin to send out a command for the south-east task, which is hardly enough to evacuate one of the different ethnic groups. It is obviously not clear in Berlin that the betrayal of Bulgaria and Romania would have to endanger about 1 million Germans. Since the VoMi commandos are far too weak, they depend on the help of the ethnic groups. However, since the ethnic groups of Romania, Croatia and Hungary are not fully eligible for cooperation, partly due to lack of leadership, partly because of the military situation, VoMi's command tries to use the ethnic group leadership of Serbian Banat for its purposes. This is also possible, even if psychological mistakes are repeatedly made by individual employees of the VoMi.