English Translation

Secret. S National Socialist German Workers' Party, Gauleitung Sudeteland Pilsen, the 4th of October 1944 The German working front The Gauobmann Reichenberg, street of the SA 27. ................ About 4 weeks ago there was a pilot alarm in Pilsen and the people in the Skoda plant visited the shelters assigned to them. In the Gusstahlhütte the following members also left their workplace when suddenly a Martinsofen started to whistle, that is, he was ripe to be stabbed. Two Czech crane drivers declared themselves ready without any excuses - because they have been busy for a long time in the company - despite the alarm at the cutting down of the furnace (it is about 25,000 kg melted steel to be helpful. One master master and some other masters, in the whole l0 persons, blew during the alarm in the department and voluntarily did the work. When they were finished with the one oven, a second oven began to whistle and it was also stabbed. If the two crane drivers - who are to be regarded as the most important persons, since they would not have been able to carry out the collection work with their machines - either the two ovens would have broken apart or the molten mass would have been frozen in the favorable case and in laborious work the solidified material would have had to be cut out of the furnace. The workers did all this without any compulsion or any prospect of reward. At the end of the last week, the two crane drivers were called to the department's office and, as a reward for their work during the alarm, they were given 1 0 cigarettes. One crane driver accepted the cigarettes, the other named Keck, but refused to accept them. This incident was not unknown to the Czech members of the party, and so the Czech party members have been exposed to various appeals from the Czechs since that time. Also, phrases fell like: "you have it, how the Germans are worth your effort" and "you should take the dog whip - 2