the next train from Belgrade to Berlin, and informed the Yugoslav representative in my Belgrade office, a Mr. Marasim, giving some kind of excuse for my departure from Belgrade.

“After my arrival in Berlin, I reported to the office of the Supreme Command of the Army named by Neuhausen. There I was received by a high ranking officer, who was already expecting me. This high ranking officer, whose name I cannot recall, obviously knew who I was. Presumably my travel orders also originated from him. He administered an oath, according to which 1 had to observe strictest silence. Thereupon he revealed to me that the war against Greece was imminent, and that I should keep myself in readiness to act in the capacity of a war administration counsellor (Kriegsverwaltungsrat) in Greece.

“After that, I was sent back to Belgrade and continued my work as Krupp’s representative. On 1 April, a few days before the German troops marched into Yugoslavia, I was evacuated from Belgrade together with the other Germans. After the occupation, about the end of April 1941, I returned to Belgrade, after having been appointed a war administration counsellor (Kriegsverwaltungsrat) on about 18 April 1941 by the same high ranking officer, who made the above-mentioned revelations to me at the end of February. I notified the Krupp firm, that is Dr. Janssen and several other gentlemen, whose names I now no longer recall, of my appointment.

“I started my work as war administration counsellor, not in Greece, but in Yugoslavia and served as war administration counsellor under Colonel Braumueller in Belgrade, who was chief of the Military Economic Staff (Wehrwirtschaftsstab) Southeast. Simultaneously, I continued my work as Krupp’s representative for chromium ore mines in the Yugoslav territory. I continued my work for Krupp from the time of my appointment as war administration counsellor until June 1944 and during all this time was permanently in uniform * * *.

“That the Krupp firm was intensely interested in exploiting the chrome mines of Yugoslavia, both before and during the occupation there can be no doubt. The new enterprise, Yugochrom A.G. mentioned by the witness Ufer, 50 percent owned by the Krupp firm and 50 percent owned by the Hermann Goering Works, had been established and work had been commenced on an ore dressing plant. The initiative was taken by the Krupp firm as shown by Sohl, chief of Krupp’s department of ore mining (NIK-13383, Pros. Ex. 772) —

“We may claim for us that in this one year we thoroughly investigated all chromium deposits in Yugoslavia at all within reach and not yet in firm hands