THE PRESIDENT: Very well, the Court does not desire it.
COL. AMEN: Very well. [Turning to witness.] As a member of the Abwehr, were you generally well informed on the plans of the German Reich for the waging of war?
LAHOUSEN: Insofar as the effects of the plans concerned the preparatory activities or co-operation of the Amt Ausland Abwehr.
COL. AMEN: Did any intelligence information ever come to your attention which was not available to an ordinary person, or to an ordinary officer in the Army?
LAHOUSEN: Yes, certainly. That was in the nature of my office.
COL. AMEN: And, on the basis of the knowledge which you so obtained, did you in your group come to any decisions as to whether or not the attack on Poland, for example, was an unprovoked act of aggression?
THE PRESIDENT: Well. . . .
LAHOUSEN: Would you be kind enough to repeat the question?
THE PRESIDENT: That is one principal question which this Court has to decide. You cannot produce evidence upon a question which is within the province of the Court to decide.
COL. AMEN: Very well, Sir. The witness is now available for cross-examination.