DR. SAUTER: Witness, I am interested in the following points: You said just now that in 1939 you were taken into the SS?
HÖLLRIEGEL: That is true; on the 6th of September . . .
DR. SAUTER: One moment; please repeat your answer.
HÖLLRIEGEL: That is right. On the 6th of September 1939 I was taken into the SS at Ebersberg near Linz.
DR. SAUTER: Had you no connection at all with the Party before then?
HÖLLRIEGEL: Yes. In April 1938 I enlisted in the civilian SS, because I was out of work during the entire previous period of the Schuschnigg Government and without any support, and consequently I thought, I would join the civilian SS; there I would get work in order to marry my wife.
DR. SAUTER: Then, if I understood you correctly, you were drafted into the SS in 1939, because you had already voluntarily enlisted in the civilian SS in the spring of 1938?
HÖLLRIEGEL: I cannot say that exactly. Many were drafted into the Armed Forces, into the Air Force, and into the General SS.
DR. SAUTER: Are you an Austrian?
HÖLLRIEGEL: Yes.