English Translation

- 5 - bV received complaints from all sides and I had to use many hours to restore the peace of work. These disputes extended later also to Czech officials, of which, due to their behavior, they were not taken for serious and not for normal. It was mainly about his own personal act, which she constantly demanded for inspection, to check whether she was not "managed" somewhere. It was my natural duty that, knowing that I expressly prohibited the publication of her personal act to her. As I learned later, she even took advantage of her position of trust with Vice-President Schubert to issue orders independently and without the knowledge of the Vice-Presidency, and to place them in the folder of Vice-Vice-President Schubert, who used to blindly write down the things she had presented without any inspection, in this way, for example, she also wrote the above-mentioned letter on her classification according to TOA VI b to the Reichsprotektor himself. I do not know whether Vice President Schubert was aware of this letter at all. 6.) All these circumstances had to prompt me to terminate Mrs. Rütz soon. Only the lack of German workers, which, as I know today, was largely self-inflicted, acknowledged to me the social plight of Mrs. Rütz and her minor son and finally the complete confidence that Mrs.Rütz enjoyed with Vice President Schubert, determined me to keep it in the case of mere reproving. At that time, Vice-President Schubert simply did not give any faith to the many complaints. Only when I was aware that her pri- vite's life was much to be desired, I held her in her prominent position as secretary of the President of the State -9-