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[inter...] rupted by military events, that is, about the time when the Americans entered the Rhineland on the Ruhr. Nor do I know whether concentration camp inmates were used there.
Q. Do you recall whether foreign labor was used?
A. In this factory? That I cannot say.
Q. You don't recall constructing any factories for Wiener-Neustadt?
A. No.
Q. Or for the automobile works at Steyr, in Austria?
A. No.
Q. Focke-Wulf, in Bremen?
A. No, in Bremen we only built a U-boat factory.
Q. Do you recall constructing any factories for Heinkel?
A. That I don't know. I wasn't really interested in such questions, because I received the data from the Jaegerstab, and the Jaegerstab did the actual construction. The engineer of the Todt Organization built the house, and then the Jaegerstab took care of the rest. There were no discussions on my part with construction firms. Moreover, I didn't even have time to carry out such things.
Q. But you got your labor through Schmelter, who was a member of the Jaegerstab?
A. Yes, he was a member of the Jaegerstab, and I have already said that he was also the leader of labor allocation in the Todt Organization. He was in charge. At first he was entirely within the Todt Organization, and then later he was what you might call the leader for the allocation of labor in Speer's Ministry, and was in charge later of the allocation of labor in the Todt Organization. At the same time, he performed the same function in the Jaegerstab, so that automatically there was a connection between the Todt Organization and the Jaegerstab.
MR. KING: I have no further questions, your Honor.
REDIRECT EXAMINATION
DR. BERGOLD: Witness, I have one more question. When did these Hungarian Jews arrive at Muehldorf
A. I do not know about Muehldorf, but I can recall that at Kaufering the first ones came — and here I must guess — at the end or the beginning of June 1944.
DR. BERGOLD: Thank you, I have no further questions.
MR. KING: I have one further question, if your Honor pleases.
DR. BERGOLD: I have just heard that the interpreter was inaccurate. The witness spoke of the end and the middle of June, and the interpreter said "the beginning of June".
