English Translation

-4-8V payment made conditional on her signing the draft service contract submitted to her, but not reading it. I have to see in it the accusation of blackmail. Mrs. Rütz signed this contract before the competent department of the state authority. Whether she has read it or not is not known to me. Of course, there was no instruction on my part to produce it unread. However, the additional payment due to her on the basis of this new contract could only be paid out by the retroactive force of the salary increase after this new agreement had been concluded. A few days later, she thought that she was shortening the child allowance, so that she challenged her signed letter, against revoking it. I explained to her that according to protectorate law, she had no request as an employee on child allowance, but that this could be granted to her only on the basis of a special request which she did not submit, after obtaining various documents, from the Kinisterium of the Interior, but in any case, that this did not matter at all, since this was compensated for by a correspondingly increased compensation allowance, which was there precisely to compensate for un-favorable provisions of the protectorate right for Germans. After submitting the application and the documents, the child allowance was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on the basis of my application. My own secretary, by the way, receives a significantly lower salary, because she is once single and child-free, and on the other hand only classified according to Group VII POA. 5.) The official behaviour of Mrs. Rütz left a great deal to be desired after a short time. She had already had a constant dispute with almost all German officials and members of the staff of the Lendeamt, with whom she had to deal, and tried to plot against her with me. This can be proved at any time by appropriate assumptions. Almost daily -5-