THE PRESIDENT [To the witness]: I have just taken down that you have said that was so.
COL. AMEN: Precisely.
STRÖLIN: Please repeat the question.
COL. AMEN: Did you not just tell me a few moments ago, in response to a previous question, that many members of your organization were members of the German-American Bund at the time of your speech at the rally in Madison Square Garden?
STRÖLIN: When you speak of an “organization,” do you mean members of the German Auslands-Institut?
COL. AMEN: “Your organization” is the way I put it.
STRÖLIN: I had no organization; I had an institute.
COL. AMEN: Exactly. And under whose auspices were you making this speech in Madison Square Garden?
STRÖLIN: I was asked to make this speech because I had shortly before been appointed Lord Mayor of the City of Germans Abroad. I was Lord Mayor of that city, and therefore I was asked to deliver the address. Stuttgart was made the City of Germans Abroad, since the Swabians furnished most of the emigrants, and for that reason Stuttgart was to be the home city of foreign Germans.
COL. AMEN: Well, is it not a fact that many members of the Auslands-Organisation were at that time also members of the German-American Bund? “Yes” or “no.”