KALTENBRUNNER: I have never written a single letter to the Bürgermeister of Budapest, and I should very much like to ask you to show me any such letter.
COL. AMEN: I did not say Budapest; I said the Bürgermeister of the city of Vienna, or I intended to, if I did not.
KALTENBRUNNER: The Bürgermeister of Vienna? I cannot remember having had any correspondence with him either. I think perhaps I can explain the matter to you by saying that these frontier fortifications which must be meant here did not come under the city of Vienna, but under the Gau of the lower Danube. I did not know that Vienna had a joint frontier with Hungary.
COL. AMEN: Well, you have already testified that you had nothing to do with participating in this forced labor program; is that not correct?
KALTENBRUNNER: Yes.
COL. AMEN: All right.
I ask to have the defendant shown Document 3803-PS, Exhibit Number USA-802.
[The document was submitted to the defendant.]
I call your attention to the first three paragraphs. You will note that the letter comes from yourself, and reads as follows:
“To the Bürgermeister of the city of Vienna, SS Brigadeführer Blaschke.