Your circular No. 309/44 of 9 Oct. 1944.
Dear Party comrade Bormann:—
In order to prevent difficulties and delay—which is of course not desired by you—in the liquidation of the companies under my supervision, I have today dispatched the following telegram to the Gau Leaders because of the particular urgency:
In order not to delay the liquidation of companies under my supervision, I beg to point out that the companies concerned are not private firms but business enterprises of the Reich so that also actions with regard to them just as with regard to government offices are reserved to the highest authorities of the Reich. I supervise the following companies:
(a) Zentralhandelsgesselschaft Ost fuer landwirtschaftlichen Absatz und Bedarf m.b.H. (ZO). (Central Trading Company East for Agricultural Marketing and Requirements Limited)
(b) Landbewirtschaftungsgessellschaft Ostlund und Ukraine (Agricultural Development Company Eastern Territories and Ukraine)
(c) Beschaffungsgessellschaft Ost m.b.H. (Supply Company East Limited)
(d) Pharm.—Ost G.m.b.H. (Pharmaceutics—East Company Limited)
The following banks under my supervision are also not private firms:
(e) Zentralnotenbank Ukraine (Central Exchange Bank Ukraine)