KALTENBRUNNER: That is possible.
DR. MERKEL: What approximately was the number of the Gestapo officials assigned in the East to the Einsatzgruppen A to G?
KALTENBRUNNER: I do not know.
DR. MERKEL: Can you tell me whether these officials, when assigned to the Einsatzgruppen, were released from the authority of the State Police and were acting as a special body in the Einsatzgruppen engaged in tasks with which the State Police themselves had no more to do?
KALTENBRUNNER: I believe one can assume that. Personnel affairs were still attended to, that is, their salaries were paid as usual, but the powers to issue orders, the authority to give orders was certainly different.
DR. MERKEL: Approximately how were the members of the State Police organized, that is, proportionally according to their functions? First, officials who had purely administrative functions?
KALTENBRUNNER: At least 20 percent.
DR. MERKEL: Officials with purely Security Police functions?
KALTENBRUNNER: The same number; for the greater part were in any case the subordinate personnel, that is, the technical personnel...
DR. MERKEL: This is what I intended to ask you.