DR. MERKEL: There was therefore within the Gestapo a considerable percentage of officials who were merely administrative officials and had nothing to do with operational functions?
OHLENDORF: Yes, of course.
DR. MERKEL: And what was the percentage of these administrative officials who performed purely administrative functions?
OHLENDORF: We must, in the first instance, take into consideration that this number included the assistants, as well as the women; and I cannot give you any figures off hand. But it is certain that a proportion of one specialist to three or four persons not employed in a functional capacity could not be considered excessive.
DR. MERKEL: Do you know anything about who was responsible for the direction and administration of the concentration camps?
OHLENDORF: It was Obergruppenführer Pohl.
DR. MERKEL: Did or did not the Gestapo have anything to do with the direction and with the administration of the concentration camps?
OHLENDORF: According to my knowledge, not.
DR. MERKEL: Therefore, no members of the Gestapo were active or in any way involved in the measures carried out in the concentration camps?
OHLENDORF: As far as I could judge from a distance, only investigating officials of the State Police were active in the concentration camps.