THE PRESIDENT: Will you sit down?
DR. KAUFFMANN: Witness, what was your position before the war and during the war?
NEUBACHER: For 5 years during the war I was abroad on diplomatic missions. Before the war I was Mayor of the City of Vienna.
DR. KAUFFMANN: Do you know the Defendant Kaltenbrunner?
NEUBACHER: I do.
DR. KAUFFMANN: How long have you known him?
NEUBACHER: I met Kaltenbrunner for the first time in Austria in 1934 in connection with the so-called appeasement action of the engineer Reinthaller in Austria. Later I saw him again, after the Anschluss.
DR. KAUFFMANN: In the year 1943 Kaltenbrunner was appointed Chief of the RSHA. Are you acquainted with that fact?
NEUBACHER: Yes, I am.
DR. KAUFFMANN: Do you know whether Kaltenbrunner was glad to take this position?