The technical personnel, that is radio men, teletypists, drivers, and office personnel, how many were they altogether?
KALTENBRUNNER: The first group is 20 percent, that is the administrative group, and the so-called executive personnel is 20 percent, then the remaining 60 per cent fall into two equally large groups of 30 percent each, the technical auxiliary personnel and the office personnel.
DR. MERKEL: Tell me in one brief sentence the aims and tasks of the State Police.
KALTENBRUNNER: They have been explained here repeatedly. The State Police had for their main function, as in every other country, the protection of the State from any attack coming from within.
DR. MERKEL: The Prosecution contend that the membership in the State Police was voluntary. What can you say to that?
KALTENBRUNNER: I believe that contention can in no way be maintained nor proved. I would like to say that obviously the official staff in existence in 1933 could be made up only of officials who already had been police officials at that time.
DR. MERKEL: In what way did they come to the State Police?
KALTENBRUNNER: They were ordered.
DR. MERKEL: Ordered or transferred?
KALTENBRUNNER: There was a State Police in existence prior to that time; to be sure, they were not called the State Police at that time, but the Political Police Department.