VON STEENGRACHT: Yes. I was not together with them all the time, because I was transferred to another camp.
COL. AMEN: Now, in the course of your conversations with one or another of the inmates there, did you make the statement which I am about to read to you, either in exact words or in substance? Do you understand the question? “Ribbentrop is lacking in any notion of decency and truth. The conception does not exist for him.” Please answer “yes” or “no.” Did you say that, Witness, did you say that?
VON STEENGRACHT: I should be grateful if I could hear that exactly again what I am supposed to have said.
COL. AMEN: Now remember, I am asking you whether you said it either in the exact words or in substance. Do you understand that?
VON STEENGRACHT: I did not precisely understand the German translation of your question.
COL. AMEN: Do you now understand it?
VON STEENGRACHT: I do not understand. I did not exactly understand the German translation.
COL. AMEN: Yes, but do you understand my question, namely, that you are to say, whether you used these exact words or some other similar words? I will now read it to you again. Do you understand?
VON STEENGRACHT: Yes, I would be grateful.
COL. AMEN: “Ribbentrop is lacking in any notion of decency and truth. The conception does not exist for him.”