Berlin, 30 July 1943
Chief Public Prosecutor at the People’s Court
9 J 617/43
Arrest!
Indictment
The radio engineer and radio dealer Oskar Beck, born on 21 July 1899 in Vienna, from Vienna II, Obere Donaustrasse 15; bachelor, no previous convictions, provisionally arrested on 3 June 1943, from that day on under detention pending judicial investigation in virtue of the warrant issued by the examining magistrate at the Court of Appeal in Vienna on 17 June 1943—2 S Js 1750/43—at detention prison I in Vienna, so far without defense counsel, is charged by me, in Vienna in March or April 1943 to have undermined the defensive strength by malicious incitement against war work for women.
Crime according to article 5, paragraph I, number 1 of the Extraordinary War Penal Ordinance.[508]
Main result of investigations
The accused attended the elementary school and a 4-year high school course in Vienna, and for 5 years attended a trade school for electro-technicians, was employed until 1924 in a number of places; and since then has had a shop of his own with a net income of 200 reichsmarks per month. He is of mixed race, first degree; his mother was a Jewess. From 1919 until March 1922 he was a member of the Social Democrat Party. He is now a malicious adversary of the National Socialist State.
In March or April 1943, he repaired the wireless set of Theresia Draxler, retired post office secretary. When leaving her apartment, he saw an application form for joining the total war effort on the kitchen table. He asked the witness Draxler whether she had already filled in the form and added: