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[allo…] cation agencies in France and to represent the interests
of the firm for a proper allocation of manpower.
Q. Did you have any
influence on the recruitment or in the assignment of these laborers to Germany?
A. No, I didn’t.
Q. Then you merely had to see to it that
these people were allocated according to their professions?
A. Yes,
that was my task.
Q. Was there ever in existence a recruitment agency
for Krupp in France for foreign workers?
A. No, not during the time
when I was there. I don’t know that it was in existence before my time or
after my time, or that there was ever an office of that nature.
Q. Was
the French firm, in particular Bergerat et Monnoyiur et Cie a Krupp recruitment
agency?
A. No. This firm had taken over the representation of the firm
of Krupp for various industrial production equipment, and in our capacity as
Krupp employees we went there to use their typewriters and to establish
telephone connection with Essen in order to make our reports, or any other
messages that we had to submit. The firm of Bergerat was not included in this
affair at all.
Q. Was there ever a recruitment agency in the Krupp
office, Boulevard Haussmann 141?
A. No, as far as I know, that office
was established only during the last weeks of my stay in Paris. It was only to
be sort of a branch office for those people who came to Paris on behalf of the
firm.
Q. Mr. Hennig, you will have to speak a little more slowly. If
you speak too quickly, you will be warned by the yellow light. Then your
activity was only of an informative nature?
A. Yes.
Q. As far
as you could see, when French civilian workers were recruited by the official
labor allocation agencies there, was the principle of voluntariness violated?
A. We must distinguish between two periods of time. In the first
period, the recruitment was done on a purely voluntary basis. Later, an
agreement was reached with the French Government — I believe with Laval
— according to which French workers could be drafted for work in Germany.
Q. You said that Dr. Lehmann visited you in Paris?
A. Yes. I
was working for him in Paris, or I had gone there upon his instigation;
naturally, when he came to Paris, I reported to him.
Q. Did Dr. Lehmann
know that you did not have to carry out recruitment activities?
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