English Translation

- 4 - yes. Inventory is the most urgent task. I am able to follow items in the course of the liquidation of the E II after the completion of the inventory. 14.)Also the urgent representations made by the representatives of my General's Department in February Major Jurk to bring the open invoices immediately into the books were not considered. Thus, when I took over the staff, I found open invoices in the amount of more than 2oo.ooo RM, whose booking I now start. 15.) Outside the books, a so-called "leih-konto" (about 8.ooo RM) was kept, which can only be attributed an Evi - denzcharacter. In addition, the management of this account appears particularly deficient; at the moment I am dealing with the exact execution of these debtors. In the books, the account will be kept separately under the name "Leih - Debitors". On the balance sheet on December 5, 1943, this account was "forgotten" . 16.) Furthermore, in the balance sheets on December 05, 1943 the accounts of some 4o.ooo RM were placed with the warehouse stocks. Thus, an optically better balance sheet should be shown. For this purpose, some of the invoices that are still being searched for have been shown as stocks in the balance sheet. 17.) As is clear from the consistent statements of the members of the staff employed in accounting, it was the particular endeavour to cover up the business. In this way, the use of names in the books and on supporting documents should be avoided. For this reason, it was conscious intention to conduct credit transactions in