After all Klein had a good conscience. Otherwise, he wouldn't have asked for that auditing to be done and he couldn't know that I would make certain findings which would result in his dismissal. After all, he was dismissed as a result of the report submitted later on - that is correct.
BY JUDGE PHILLIPS:
Q. What findings did you make that caused him to be dismissed?
A. I found irregularities in the administration of his office, as I said yesterday.
Q. I don't want generalities. I want to know what you found, not irregularities - but what did you find?
A. I can recall that the Party files were incorrectly kept in part. I can remember there had been a part that had not been accounted for that should have been listed on the balance and whenever construction work was carried and he approved, the budget funds were exceeded. These are the findings which were discovered by the auditor and I was informed about this as a result of the auditing report. All these matters were passed on to Pohl through the auditing report and then the question was decided, Your Honor, as to what should be done with Klein. This decision was entirely with Pohl. However, I would like to point out that the suggesting for auditing originated with Klein.
Q. You said that half a dozen of times. I didn't ask you about that. Did you find embezzlement?
A. I am not a lawyer and I cannot state that with decisive clarity. It was just ---
Q. Just answer my question and we will get along better. Did you find that there was a shortage of money?
A. Money wasn't lacking but money had been listed under loans which had been granted to collaborators and they should have been listed in the balance. That was the state of affairs.
Q. Were the loans ever paid back?
A. For a long time they were listed in the accounts and should have been balanced. In part there were advances for traveling expenses which should have been listed in the accounts. I don't know if this is an embezzlement!
Q. Please answer my question, witness. I didn't ask you anything about that. I asked you was the money listed as a loan was repaid?
A. At the time I was auditor not yet. That was taken care of later on.
Q. Why didn't you answer No. I didn't ask you anything else. Just answer my question. The money listed as a loan had not been repaid?
A. The loan had not been repaid.
Q. Were any misapplications of funds found in the audit?
A. The funds which had been approved for the construction work had been exceeded, more money had been spent than approved. That was the state of affairs. I cannot make any statement about the legal aspect. For example five thousand marks had been approved for construction and 10,000 marks had been spent and the funds were taken away from the business capital.
Q. That is all.
BY MR. ROBBINS:
Q. Then it was decided that Klein would go to the front after these irregularities were discovered, isn't that true?
A. I am not informed about the details. I knew Klein was to be assigned to front line duty. That was not part of my task.
Q. I din't ask you if he would be assigned, I am asking you when it was decided he would leave the WVHA and go on active duty. Only after these irregularities were discovered?
A. I didn't have anything to do with the decision. I don't know who made it. I was not informed at all.
Q. I am asking you when, not who? You know when the irregularities were discovered. You know when the decision for his leaving the office was made. Nobody was in a better position then you to know about it.
A. After the auditing report was submitted to him Pohl called Klein to him and told him about the decision ---- just what he had been told I don't know.
Q. Then it was decided that he would go on active duty, isn't that right, only then and not before?
A. That he wanted to go to the front and that he wanted the auditing to be done, that is correct. He wanted to become a soldier. However when, I don't know.
Q. Did you tell an interrogator on the 13 January 1947 in Nurnberg that it was decided that Klein would go to the front only after these irregularities were discovered? Did you make that statement?
A. I can't recall having made that statement. I don't know too much about these things. Maybe I made a mistake in that thing.
Q. I have no further questions.
THE PRESIDENT: Before you start, counsel, I am suggesting that we are not trying Klein for embezzlement or for wrong conduct in office.
Is any further inquiry into this particular matter important, Mr. Robbins?
MR. ROBBINS: I think it possibly is, Your Honor. From the opening statement of defense counsel I believe that the motive for Klein's leaving, the reasons why he left, are important. I think he is going to claim that was because he was unpopular in the office and was persecuted somewhat the same defense as the defendant Hohberg has.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we are not trying to justify his discharge from the office and we really don't care whether his collaborators liked him or not. This seems to be outside of the framework of the Indictment, as the phrase is.
MR. ROBBINS: It is hard for me to predict what the defense Klein is going to say but if his decision for leaving was because of opposition to National Socialism and because of his principles against the SS --I think it would become important.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, don't you think we had better wait until he makes such a claim, rather than anticipating it. I mean, for any further inquiry.
MR. ROBBINS: I suggest, your Honor, that it possibly won't take defense counsel very long to finish up. Probably would take less time now than to call the defendant back.
THE PRESIDENT: I presume I should have raised the question some time ago more properly. Go ahead, sir.
DR. FICHT FOR THE DEFENDANT KLEIN:
Q. Witness, you have told us yesterday that Klein himself requested the auditing to be done and first of all there were difficulties in carrying out such an auditing at all. For that reason at that time a longer discussion took place about this matter and just how the auditing was to be carried out. Didn't Klein tell you specifically at that time just why he wanted this auditing to be carried out?
A. I believe I answered that already yesterday.
Q. However, I believe since the details have been mentioned here that it would be appropriate if you could tell us some details about the matter.
A. I only know, and I believe I have stated that literally yesterday that Klein wanted to go to the front or was to go to the front. I think that's how I expressed myself yesterday however they were of no interest to me because they were not part of my auditing...
THE PRESIDENT: What did Klein tell you as for his reason for wanting the audit made?
A. Klein told me that when he went into combat he wanted to have a confirmation from his business management that he had conducted the business properly.
Q. And, therefore, he mentioned the fact that he was to go to the front?
A. Yes, but when, where, or how, I don't know.
Q. Witness, please excuse me, I didn't ask you that. However, it wasn't a fact that an office chief could come at any time at all and ask for work to be audited?
A. We would not have carried out the auditing work if it hadn't been requested and Klein himself initiated that request for that work. It was connected with his assignment to the front which already may have been planned at any time. That is quite natural because when he left somebody had to become his deputy. He wanted to have a confirmation that he had conducted his business properly. That's the usual wish of any business manager.
Q. Well, let me ask a very precise question. Since apparently you are not quite informed about these things in any case you do not knot for certain whether at that time a discussion had already taken place between Pohl and Klein where Pohl told Klein he had to go to the front?
A. I can't recall anything of the sort. I don't know if Pohl spoke to Klein before. I just don't know that.
Q. Who carried out the auditing?
A. The auditing work was carried out as a general supervisory auditing ---
Q. I mean who carried out the auditing?
A. That was the auditor SS Dr. Flettstoesser in my opinion.
Q. And the man in charge of the auditing department also participated in that auditing work?
A. No, not at the beginning, only when Dr. Flettstoesser had made a report, as far as I recall.
Q. However, then he also took part in this auditing?
A. Yes, he took part in the final discussion before the final report was submitted.
Q. Witness, you have further stated in your answer to the Prosecutor's question that by virtue of this report the decision had been reached that Klein had to leave his office. How did this come to your knowledge? Did you have anything to do with his dismissal or did Pohl consult you in this matter or didn't you just hear about it?
A I submitted my auditing report in accordance with my duties. Pohl read it and then he reached his decision.
Q However, you did not participate in that?
A No, Pohl reached his decision all by himself. However, I was there when he announced his decision.
DR. FICHT: I have no further questions.
DR. FRITSCH: Your Honor, I do not want to have any further examination now. I request that the witness be excused from the witness stand.
THE PRESIDENT: The witness may be removed from the witness stand by the Marshal.
DR. FRITSCH: (Counsel for the defendant Baier): Your Honor, I do not want to call the witness who has been approved for me since I have received an affidavit by him and I think that this is sufficient. I think that will make the procedure much more brief. I have concluded the presentation of my case, and I still reserve myself the right to submit the additional document book which permission was granted me.
THE PRESIDENT: You will have the right to furnish further document books in your defense at any time before the conclusion of the Trial. The next defendant?
DR. GAWLIK (Counsel for the Defendant Leo Volk): Your Honor, I shall now begin the presentation of evidence in the case of Dr. Volk, and I shall call the defendant as a witness in his own behalf. If the Tribunal please, I shall now call the defendant, Dr. Volk, to the witness stand.
LEO VOLK, a witness, took the stand and testified as follows:
JUDGE PHILLIPS: Raise your right hand and repeat after me.
I swear by God the Almighty and Omniscient that I will speak the pure truth and will withhold and add nothing.
(Witness repeated the oath).
JUDGE PHILLIPS: You may be seated.
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY DR. GAWLIK:
Q Witness, your name is Leo Volk, isn't it?
A Yes, my name is Dr. Leo Narziss Bolk.
Q When and where were you born?
A I was born on the 2nd of May 1909 at Berlin.
Q Please describe to the Tribunal briefly your curriculum vitae until you began your studies.
AAfter I had attended three classes of the Lessing gymnasium, and after I had attended the gymnasium for 9 years, I metriculated in the year 1928 and I received my diploma which permitted me to enter the university.
Q What sciences did you study and where?
A I studied law. I studied at Grenoble in southern France, at Zurich , at Erlangen, at Greifswald, and at Berlin. I studied during vacations at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
Q And how did you complete your education?
A I passed the first state examination, and I passed the examination for the Referendar, that was at the end of the year 1932. I began a Referendar for 3 years, that is to say, I became an assistant in the German courts in order to complete my training there, without pay. In the meantime, I became a Doctor of Law, and I wrote a book about civil law. On the 4th of November, 1936, I took my second legal state examination. That was the so-called examination of an assessor.
Q What activity did you carry out then?
A I then became an administrator apprentice in September 1937, and I worked with the German Gemeindetag, the top level of the German municipalities. After 4 months, I became scientific assistant in that work, and after that I became a Referent on the table of organization, what can be compared with the position of counselor of the government, a Regierungsrat of the government service.
Q Please tell the Tribunal what organization the German Gemeindetag was.
A The German Gemeindetag is the communal top level, an organization of all municipalities and organizations. In our law, they are considered public legal authorities.
Q Did the German Gemeindetag belong to the NSDAP or did it belong to one of its affiliated organizations?
A No.
Q What were the tasks of the German Gemeindetag?
A The German Gemeindetag had the task to advise the German municipalities and affiliated organizations, and to exchange experiences between the cities and municipalities amongst each other.
Q How long did you stay with the German Gemeindetag?
A I remained with the Deutscher Gemeindetag until the time when I was conscripted into the Waffen SS, the third of January 1940.
Q For what reason did you terminate your activity with the Deutscher Gemeindetag?
A Because I was forced by the government, and because I was forced by conscription of the Army Corps Area into the Waffen SS, and I was assigned to the Administrative Office of the Waffen SS.
Q Does this mean that you volunteered into the Waffen SS, or was your conscription to the Waffen SS based on a legal order?
A I did not volunteer to serve in the Waffen SS. I was conscripted by virtue of law.
DR. GAWLIK: Your Honor, in this connection, I want to submit Document Volk number 1, Volk Exhibit Number 1. Unfortunately, I haven't received the translation of this document as yet, and I therefore shall read only a few sentences from this affidavit. It is an affidavit by Dr. Kurt Kottenberg, and he stated before me: "In accordance with Law Number 52 of the Military Government: I have kept the files of the German Gemeindetag, the Section Rhineland; and Dr. Leo Volk was working from 1938 until 1940 as a Referent with this agency.
In the case of these files, we also have a statement of the 29th of December 1939, according to which, Dr. Leo Volk by order of the Civil Commander of the Wehrmacht was conscripted for service in the Armed Forces of the Waffen SS."
THE PRESIDENT: He was conscripted in 1939 or '40? He was conscripted into the Waffen SS on what date?
DR. GAWLIK: He was conscripted on 3 January 1940.
BY DR. GAWLIK:
Q Could you have refused to comply with the conscription in the Waffen SS?
A No.
Q What would have happened if you had refused, or if you had not complied with the order to report for service in the Waffen SS?
A I would have been tried for desertion by a court martial, and probably, as it was Customary, and as it was prescribed by law, I would have been tried accordingly by virtue of the court martial manual and shot.
Q Where did you have to report, by virtue of this order of conscription?
A I had to report to the Administrative Office of the Waffen SS in Berlin.
Q When was that?
A That was on the 3rd of January 1940.
Q What rank did you receive when you entered the Waffen SS?
A I was just a plain private in the SS.
Q What was the highest rank which you reached in the Waffen SS?
A My highest rank in the Waffen SS was SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer in the Reserve. That rank corresponds to that of a Captain in the American Army.
Q When you reported to the Waffen SS, what assignment and what order did you receive?
A I was assigned to the Main Office, Budget and Economy, that was Office III-A.
Q Did you assume your activity with the Main Office Administration and Economy?
A Yes.
Q Subsequently was your activity in the Main Office Administration and Economy voluntary or was it prescribed by law?
A It resulted from a law, and it was based on this conscription law.
Q Could you refuse to comply with the assignment which you were given with the Main Office, Administration and Economy?
A No.
Q What would have happened if you had not complied with this assignment?
A I would have also been placed before a court martial.
Q At the time did you know anything about the tasks of the Main Office, Administration and Economy?
A When I entered the Main Office, Administration and Economy -- well, to use other words, when I began working there, I did not know anything about the tasks of the Main Office of Administration and Economy.
Q What would you have done if you could have chosen your work during the war, if you could have freely chosen your assignment?
A Since I knew many colleagues in my profession who were in antiaircraft units, I would have liked to volunteer for the service in the anti-aircraft units.
Q Witness, please take a look at Document NO-620, Exhibit 33. That is contained in Document Book Number 2 on page 63 of the German, and on page 53 of the English text. This document shows an organizational chart of the Main Office, Administration and Economy. Are the individual main departments and offices on that chart reproduced correctly?
A I know this chart. It is correct, and in the Main Office, Administration and Economy, and also probably what was known as the Main Office, Construction and Budget.
It shows the separation of the Main Office, Budget and Construction, and the Main Office, Administration and Economy quite correctly. The Main Office, Budget and Construction was the Reich Administration. That is to say, it was a government agency. According to our law it was subjected to Administrative Law, that is to say, civil law; while the Main Office Administration and Economy had the economic enterprises subordinated to it.
Q What was the task of the Main Department III-A/4?
A The Main Department III-A/4 had the task to administer the Brick Works which had been seized in accordance with the law, and they were administered by the Trusteeship for the East in a uniform manner.
Q Who seized these enterprises?
AAs I have already stated, the Main Trusteeship agency in the East seized these factories.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: How were they seized? What was the procedure?
A The Main Trusteeship agency in the East had issued an order of seizure which approved the seizure of this property. It was by virtue of this that the district government officials within their districts ordered the communities which were under them to seize the Brick Works which were mentioned in the order of seizure. They were to be seized in that manner. If I can clarify the matter as follows: The government counselors, or the government officials, are the lowest state authority, and we must differentiate here in the organization of our administration between three various agencies. The ministries, we had the government president, and we had the so-called Landrat, the government official for the district. And the Landrat actually had two tasks. They fulfilled a task for the State and fulfilled a task for the community. In his capacity as Landrat, he had to work as the lowest authority. Mainly he had to deal with police matters. In his capacity as municipal official, he is himself an administrative body, and as is stated in American law, he hears only subjects on the supervision of his work.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: These plants were in Poland and Russia, were they not?
A No, the enterprises were located within what used to be Poland. In a later time, however, by virtue of a German Reich Law, they had been incorporated, and the law stated that the new eastern territories and this was also mentioned in the order of seizure - if I can recall the exact text, then Your Honor will understand the matter - it is stated that "by order of Reich Marshal Goering, the commissioner of the Four Year Plan, all Polish and Jewish Brick Works, which are located in the newly incorporated annexed territories, are herewith to be seized."
BY JUDGE PHILLIPS:
Q. And that was a German law made after Germany had seized the country--seized Poland, and the owners were paid nothing for these plants?
A. I cannot answer this question, Your Honor, because I did not work in the annexed Eastern Territories, and I only held a very subordinate position. I believe that the defendant Dr. Bobermin will be able to provide you with all the details. I only know that the former owners were employed. However, I only heard that from hearsay, after I had again left that department, that the former owners of these enterprises did not receive any compensation for their value of the brick works, but they received enough so that they could support themselves. I don't know any further details about that. However, I would like to state explicitly that I am not precisely informed about this matter, and that with regard to the last statement I do not want to be quoted on that.
THE PRESIDENT: We will take a recess.
THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal will recess for fifteen minutes.
(A recess was taken).
Court No. II, Case No. 4.
THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal is again in session.
BY DR. GAWLIK:
Q Witness, the last thing you told us was that this enterprise, that is, the Bricks Works had been seized by the Main Trusteeship Agency East. What was that?
A The Main Trusteeship Agency, East, HTO for short, was a Reich Agency. It was a supreme Reich Agency under the Four Years Plan. In charge was Burgomeister Dr. Winkler.
Q Did the HTO belong to the Main Office Economy Administration?
A No.
Q What were the relations between those two agencies?
A No relationship at all. It was, as I said, an agency of the Four Years Plan. We mean, it was a Reich Agency.
Q What was the Four Years Plan?
A The agency of Four Years Plan was a supreme Reich authority.
Q Who was in charge of the agency?
JUDGE PHILLIPS: We are all familiar with that, Doctor. We are familiar with the Four Years Plan.
BY DR. GAWLIK:
Q Did Pohl or Himmler have any authority over that agency?
A No.
Q Was Winkler who was in charge of the agency a member of the SS?
A Not so far as I know.
Q Witness, what in the German Law is the difference between confiscation and seizure?
A In the case of a seizure the owner keeps his property, and he is only limited in his way in which he disposes of his property. If he is confiscated or disowned, or loses his property either to the Reich itself, or to a person to be appointed by the Reich, that is the other.
Q Were the seized Brick Works looted?
A From my administrative activies I know that the Reich Ministry of Finance arranged for a re-construction fund by a loan of twenty-two million marks to these enterprises. Of that sixteen millions were invested Court No. II, Case No. 4.in these properties, from which I must deduce that the enterprises were not looted and stripped, but were improved.
Q How did you know that?
A I have obtained this knowledge from the balance sheet of 1940, which I came across on one occasion.
Q You said that the Brick Works were located in the Incorporated Eastern Territory?
A Yes, quite correct.
Q Please tell the court what the Incorporated Eastern Territories of the German Reich were, what territories were they?
A By virtue of Reich Laws, part of the territories which belonged in 1939 to Poland, and, which up to 1919 had belonged either to the German Reich, or the Austrial Empire, were declared to be Reich Territories again.
Q What did you do in Office III-A-IV?
A I was in the Office III-A-4 in charge of the internal service of the Main Office Administration in Berlin. It was my task to buy the entire inventory for offices, and to equip the offices in such a way that proper work could be done in them. Part of that duty was the purchase of office furniture, desks, typewriters, paper, books and so forth. It was also my task to hire the necessary office personnel, and to supervise them in their work. Particularly if and when the main department chief was Dr. Bobermin and he was absent from Berlin. Apart from that I had legal activities, particularly as referred to the civil law, taxation law, and labor law for the Main Department III-A-IV.
Q What do you mean when you say you supervised them?
A When I supervised the personnel it means that I had to see to it that the personnel would come punctually to the offices, and to work as they should. For instance, I made up their work plan, and their leave plans for them.
Q Was III-A-IV in charge of any concentration camps?
A No, III-A-IV had nothing to do at all with concentration camps.
Q Who was in charge of the concentration camps at that time?
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A The concentration camps in 1940 were under the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps, and the RSHA. I did not know that at the time. However, what the competences of these two departments were, I still do not know to this day.
Q Was it among the tasks of III-A-IV to take part in the establishment of concentration camps or the purchase of land for concentration camps in such?
A No, a task of that type never reached us, nor would it have been in accordance with the nature and duties made a part of III-A-IV.
Q In the enterprises which were administered by III-A-IV Brick Works, were there inmates working in those enterprises?
A No, as long as I worked there not a single inmate of a concentration camp was employed.
Q Did they use forced labor?
A I heard nothing about the use of forced labor. But I know that only free workers were employed, because the work of the workers employed by these enterprises were paid according to the regulations issued by the authorities; their wage scale was that of German and Polish workers, and employees. Wage scales, or as they are called today, wage contracts, for slave labor, however, did not exist.
Q What does the German Law mean by wage scale?
A By wage scale, or wage contract, we mean a compilation of regulation which lays down the conditions for a certain branch of profession and industry.
Q What types of workers were employed in the Brick Works administered by III- A-IV?
A That enterprise only employed free labor, which I have mentioned before, who were local residents; Germans or Poles, depending on the type of population living near the Brick Works. As far as I could gather from the reports by the work managers, the managers were extremely anxious to have those workers who had worked in the enterprise before, or to get them back if they had left.
Q What do you know about the work conditions in these enterprises Court No. II, Case No. 4.for the workers?
A From the reports and the comparative figures of the balance sheets, I saw when the bookkeepers showed them to me in Berlin that Polish workers were financially better off than before under the Polish regime.
Q Was the Department III-A-IV connected in any other common task with any other main departments?
A The Main Department III-A-IV had a completely separated task from those of the other main departments of the offices. It was a task of III-A-IV to administer the Brick Works seized in 1939 on behalf of HTO in the Incorporated Eastern Territories. With that task, the other Main Departments had nothing to do with.
Q Did you have knowledge of the tasks and duties of Main Department III-A-I?
A The Departments of III-A-I I knew only very superficially at the time from stories; official contact did not exist.
Q Did you, yourself, work in the Main Department?
A No.
Q Were you ever employed by the DEST?
A I was never employed by the DEST G.m.b.H.
Q Please take Document NO 1924, which is Exhibit 16, in Book I, on page 103. This is Dr. Hohberg's affidavit in which he said that you joined the DWB, Staff W, coming from DEST?
A I am afraid I have not got the document.
Q Please give us your comments?
A This is incorrect. Dr. Hohberg made a mistake. The reason why he made a mistake probably is that the Main Department III-A-IV, and the Main Department III-A-I were managed by Dr. Salpeter, the Office Chief, with the result that to the outside the impression may have been created that I was also with the DEST, perhaps.
JUDGE PHILLIPS: Also with what?
THE INTERPRETER: DEST. That I might have been with the DEST.
JUDGE PHILLIPS. What is the last word?
THE INTERPRETER: Perhaps.
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Q Did Main Department III-A-IV have contacts with the other main offices, of the Office Economy and Administration - did they have mutual tasks?
A No.
Q The Prosecution has stated that all three offices of the Main Office were closely connected with each other and the concentration camps. It is on page 7 of the Indictment. Does that apply also to III-A-IV?
A No. III-A-IV had nothing to do with concentration camps. It never employed an inmate or a forced laborer.
Q Then the Prosecution has submitted that Office III had supervised the various enterprises where prisoners and inmates worked as laborers. Is that true of III-A-IV?
A No, never at any time were inmates or prisoners employed by enterprises under III-A-IV. Office A 3, therefore, could not do any work for Main Department III-A-IV.
Q Then in this connection, the Prosecution has submitted that every single one had offices in concentration camps, is that true?
A No, as far as III-A-IV is concerned, which, as I said before, did not employ a single inmate no representative existed in the concentration camps.
Q Please take Document NO-1045 which is Exhibit 23 in Volume II on page 42 of the German book and 26 in the English Book. Does this document show the organization of III-A-IV correctly?
A This document is correct.
Q What is meant by Central Works which this document makes reference to?
A The Central Works were the local administrative office for the coordination of the brick works in a certain area. The man in charge was a business man and his deputy was the technical manager. He was an engineer in the field of construction material. These people were immediately under office chief Dr. Salpeter. Dr. Bobermin, the Main Department Chief, in turn was also under Office Chief Dr. Salpeter.
Q In the document referred to you are named as deputy Main Office Court No. II, Case No. 4.chief, is that right.
A Yes.
Q When were you deputy?
A I deputized for Dr. Bobermin in the Main Office in Berlin from 3 January 1940 until 1 October 1940.
Q What were your duties as deputy of the Main Department chief?
A In that capacity I was in charge of the internal office of Berlin Main Administration and about 30 people were employed. I had to supervise the office, had to look after the furniture and equipment, select people to be hired and introduce them to the Main Department Chief. Apart from that I worked on legal and taxation matters for the Main Department. For instance I read the instructions and regulations from the official German Gazettes which were issued by the HTO. I had to supply documents for the circulars which were circulated through the factories and which I had to submit to the Main Department Chief who signed them. The Main Department Chief initialed them and had them signed by Dr. Salpeter. I have never signed a circular myself, but I believe on one occasion Dr. Bobermin signed the circulars very infrequently. Anyway I had no right to sign anything. If the Main Department Chief was not there and in order to be sure I had to report myself to the Main Department Chief and he gave the necessary instructions.
Q Who paid you?
A I did not receive pay from the Main Office Economy and Administration as I had been conscripted as a soldier to the Waffen-SS and assigned to the Main Department. I, as everybody else who was an official, was paid by the agency which had paid me in peace time--The German Gemeindetag. I also received my Army pay of 72 marks which was deducted from my peace time salary.
Q When were the Eastern German Construction Material Works G.m.b.H. formed?
A Roughly in 1941, I think. Dr. Salpeter drafted the contract as far as I know. Dr. Wilhelm Schneider who was an attorney supplied the contract.