COL. AMEN: Defendant, in order to shorten as much as possible the time of this cross-examination, I want to be sure that we understand each other as to just what your position is as to several specific items.
Now, first, you concede that you held the title of Chief of the RSHA and Chief of the Security Police and SD from the end of January 1943 up to and including the end of the war. Is that correct?
KALTENBRUNNER: Yes, it applies with those limitations which I enumerated yesterday with regard to my authority in the State and Criminal Police.
COL. AMEN: And when you speak of those limitations, you are referring to this supposed understanding with Himmler? Is that correct?
KALTENBRUNNER: It was not a supposed understanding with Himmler but a well-established fact which existed from the very first day, that I had the task of establishing a centralized intelligence service in the Reich and that he would retain command in the other sectors.
COL. AMEN: Well, in any event, you concede that you held that title, but you deny that you exercised some of the powers? Correct?
KALTENBRUNNER: Yes.
COL. AMEN: And this title which you held was the same title which was previously held by Heydrich, who had died on 4 June 1942? Is that correct?
KALTENBRUNNER: Yes.
COL. AMEN: There was no change in title?