LAHOUSEN: After the Anschluss I was automatically taken into the High Command of the German Armed Forces, where I did the same work. In that position I was then a member of the Abwehr and my chief was Admiral Canaris.
COL. AMEN: And what was the position of Admiral Canaris?
LAHOUSEN: Canaris was at that time Chief of the German Abwehr, the German Intelligence.
COL. AMEN: And will you explain briefly the responsibility of the principal departments of the Abwehr under Admiral Canaris?
LAHOUSEN: When, after the Anschluss in 1938, I entered the Amt Ausland-Abwehr there were three Abwehr divisions, and the division called “Ausland,” and together they formed the organization known as “Ausland-Abwehr.” That was the set-up of the organization in my time. How it was composed before I became a member of it, I cannot say exactly.
COL. AMEN: And what were your duties?
LAHOUSEN: First, I automatically came into Abwehr Division I. That was the division concerned with collecting information. It was also called the Secret Information Service. I worked under a divisional chief, the then Colonel in the General Staff Pieckenbrock, whom I knew already from my Austrian past. I also knew Canaris from my time in Austria.
COL. AMEN: Admiral Canaris was your immediate superior?
LAHOUSEN: Admiral Canaris was my immediate superior.
COL. AMEN: From time to time did you act as his personal representative?