LAMMERS: He was not a Minister as becomes clear from the decree which expressly states that he only had the rank of a Minister.
DR. NELTE: Do you mean, in other words, that if he had been a Minister that you would not have had to give him full ranking of a Minister? But then, he was also a member of the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich. Did not that make him a minister?
LAMMERS: Nothing was altered in his position in the Reich Government through that membership.
DR. NELTE: You mean no, don’t you?
LAMMERS: Yes, I mean no.
DR. NELTE: Thank you very much.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal will adjourn until 1400.