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[Top left: Rubber stamp “Submit to LT/ET"]
[Upper right, below the date: Rubber stamp of the Topf management secretariat, as on document 3, here dated l7th November 1942]
Erfurt, 15th November 1942
To Messrs E and L Topf
inside the house
Dear Messrs Topf, [in pencil: “Submit to LT") After the conversation I had with you at the end of last year, you agreed to pay me a bonus for the new construction of three-muffle cremation furnaces.
This was to be paid once it was established that the furnaces operated correctly.
12 and 6 weeks ago, respectively, the first two
Topf three-muffle cremation furnaces
entered service in the Buchenwald crematorium.
The first furnace already has a great number of cremations behind it, and the functioning of the furnace and hence the new construction has proved itself and is faultless.
The furnaces have a throughput 1/3 greater than I had foreseen.
To date, 8 three-muffle cremation furnaces are completed or under construction. A further 6 are being manufactured. I would therefore ask you to pay me the promised bonus as soon as possible.
Always gladly at your service,
Respectfully yours,
Kurt Prüfer
Bischleben
Herm[ann]. Göringstr[aße] 2
450 RM
Provision received
12/12/42 |
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