LAMMERS: For what?
DR. PANNENBECKER: To issue a decree for some occupied territory, for instance Norway.
LAMMERS: No, not of itself—at the most after the Reich commissioner had agreed.
DR. PANNENBECKER: Was it at all customary for the Central Office at any time to issue a decree for a certain occupied territory?
LAMMERS: To my knowledge that has never happened. I do not know of a single case where the Central Office issued a decree.
DR. PANNENBECKER: A decree by the Reich Minister of the Interior has been cited which ruled on the question of citizenship, also with reference to occupied territories.
LAMMERS: Yes, about German citizenship probably.
DR. PANNENBECKER: Yes.
LAMMERS: Yes, but that was certainly an internal German matter.
DR. PANNENBECKER: Did the Central Office have any right to issue instructions either to the German Plenipotentiary in the occupied territory, say the Reich Commissioner for Norway...