DR. NELTE: Then you know also that the OKW—that is to say in this case, Keitel—then decided that this should not happen.
LAHOUSEN: No, that I do not know.
DR. NELTE: But you do know that General Giraud returned to Unoccupied France without having been harmed?
LAHOUSEN: Yes, I do know that.
DR. NELTE: Well, in that case, the answer to my previous question is self-apparent.
LAHOUSEN: I speak the truth when I say I do not know. I could not have known unless they had talked about it in my presence.
DR. NELTE: Well, it is so, and the facts prove it to be so. Did you know that General Giraud’s family lived in Occupied France?
LAHOUSEN: No, I did not know that.
DR. NELTE: I thought the Abwehr division was entrusted with surveillance of this region?
LAHOUSEN: No, you are mistaken—certainly not my department. I do not know whether another department was in charge of that.