MAJOR JONES: I shall not proceed with that part of the document, My Lord.
[Turning to the witness.] If you will turn to the document dated 12 July, that will do for my present purposes. You remember that is your own report of the conference of 12 July 1944 on the question of the increased procuring of foreign manpower. And you opened that conference, Witness, did you not?
LAMMERS: I was always a neutral agent. If there were any differences of opinion, I offered my service as go-between.
MAJOR JONES: What were you neutral about, Witness?
LAMMERS: I was not in charge of an office. The other departments had their own departmental interests.
MAJOR JONES: You were not being an honest broker between Sauckel and Himmler, were you?
LAMMERS: I frequently had to try to effect a compromise between various people, including on occasion Himmler or Sauckel, when a dispute arose; and I think I need not blush to say that in that case I was an honest broker. I wanted to bring about an agreement between these two so that it would not be necessary to involve the Führer in such differences of opinion.
MAJOR JONES: Just look at the manner in which you opened that conference. You said there—it is the second sentence under your name:
“He limited the subject of the discussion to an examination of all the possible means of making good the present deficit of foreign workers.”
Then you say in the next question: