MAJOR JONES: And you sent a representative to the conference, did you not?
LAMMERS: Someone had to go as my representative; and he had specific orders simply to listen and not to make any comments during the conference, because I reserved for myself the right to report this to the Führer.
MAJOR JONES: Was your representative at this conference instructed by you to take no attitude? Was that what you said to the Tribunal?
LAMMERS: He was given express orders not to make any comments. My State Secretary, who gave him the instructions, can confirm this. He could not do so in any case, since no decisions were reached. But he was not to make any comments on his own initiative because I intended to discuss this question, which was at that time described as “the final solution of the Jewish problem,” with the Führer. For this reason, I deliberately gave the order, “No comments!”
MAJOR JONES: You sent Gottfried Bohle as your representative to that conference, did you not?
LAMMERS: I did not send him; my State Secretary sent him, and he was not even the competent expert, but was accidentally...
MAJOR JONES: Just answer my questions, briefly, won’t you? Gottfried Bohle made a report to you, did he not?
LAMMERS: I received a short written report, not a verbal report.
MAJOR JONES: And did that report indicate to you that Eichmann was planning extermination?
LAMMERS: No, there was nothing about that; and we did not know about it. At least, I cannot remember that there was anything in it that would have caused me to take any immediate action.