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A. Yes.
Q. That your activity was of an informative nature?
A. Yes. The recruitment activity could only be carried out by the
German recruitment agencies, and I was not subordinate to such a recruitment
office.
Q. Do you know for what other purposes Dr. Lehmann used his
stay in Paris?
A. Yes. Apart from the direct labor allocation
questions, he also had to deal with the procurement of various articles
necessary for the French workers, who were working for us in our plants. Mainly
these things were canteen goods, smaller necessary articles, musical
instruments, games, and books.
Q. Canteen articles, too?
A.
Yes. He tried to get additional food stuffs. For instance, wine and such like.
Q. Do you know anything else about the manner in which Dr. Lehmann
safeguarded the interests of French civilian workers there?
A. Yes. He
established contact with those people who had been delegated by the firm and
who were working in the various recruitment agencies, and occasionally he was
given letters and sometimes even packages from the next of kin with the request
to deliver them to workers in Germany.
Q. Was that permitted as such?
A. No, of course that was forbidden.
Q. Was that risky for Dr.
Lehmann?
A. Yes, of course; it was a favor he was doing for these
people. It was very risky because it was a violation of the censorship
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MISS GOETZ: Mr. Witness, I am not altogether clear what you did in
France. You were there purely in an informative capacity. To whom did you give
information?
WITNESS HENNIG: I gave it to the competent agency in
Essen.
Q. You mean the Essen labor office?
A. No, Dr.
Lehmann’s agency.
Q. Oh. You mean you sent reports from France to
Dr. Lehmann, is that it?
A. Yes, to the firm.
Q. And what did
you include in these reports?
A. I reported on the manner in which the
orders had reached the labor allocation agencies in Paris where these were
regionally distributed. I also tried to find out if any workers had been
assigned to Essen. As far as I could find that out, I reported
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