. NMT06-T0288
Volume VI · Page 288
| 2.
CROSS-EXAMINATION OF KEPPLER CONCERNING HIS AFFIDAVIT |
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| EXTRACTS FROM THE
TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESS WILHELM KEPPLER¹ |
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| CROSS-EXAMINATION²
DR. FLAECHSNER (counsel for defendant Steinbrinck) : Witness, will you please tell the Tribunal your full name? WITNESS KEPPLER: My name is Wilhelm Karl Keppler. Q. What is your nationality? A. My nationality is German. Q. Where were you born? A. I was born on the PRESIDING JUDGE SEARS: It will be well to caution the witness, Dr. Flaechsner, not to answer too quickly, as he may not understand the processes here. DR. FLAECHSNER: Mr. Keppler, I would ask that after every question I put to you you wait with your answer, making a little pause until the interpreters have been able to interpret. I would also ask you, when you answer to make a little pause after every sentence as you finish, so that the interpreters can finish their translation. WITNESS KEPPLER: Yes, of course, I will do that. Q. Now we had come to the date of your birth. Would you please tell the Tribunal? A. I was born on 14 December 1882, in Heidelberg. Q. What is your profession? A. Originally I was an engineer; later I was an economic adviser of the Fuehrer in the Reich Chancellery; afterward I worked in the Four Year Plan; later I became a State Secretary for special tasks in the Foreign Office. I was also president of the Reich Office for Soil Research in Berlin. Q. Mr. Keppler, on 24 September 1946 you gave an affidavit which the prosecution has submitted to the Tribunal as Exhibit 679. Do you remember the wording of this affidavit, or shall I submit it to you? |
¹ Complete testimony is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 18 August 1947, Pages 5720-5755.
² The witness was called for cross examination concerning his affidavit, Document NI-903, Prosecution Exhibit 679, reproduced immediately above. No direct examination took place.
