LAMMERS: I did not quite understand the question.
DR. DIX: You did not hear the question?
LAMMERS: I did not understand the question completely.
DR. DIX: Well, under the heading “interference with other departments” you have talked about Bormann and you have talked about Gauleiter; yesterday you talked about Himmler, his Police, and his SS with reference to the cases of Frick and Frank. I am now asking you whether this increasing power of Himmler’s and the SS did not similarly affect the other ministries?
LAMMERS: To a considerable extent in the most varied fields.
DR. DIX: That exhausts that question.
I am now coming back to Schacht. We have talked about the applications for resignation. Now we come to the actual dismissal. Ministers who were dismissed were usually given a letter of dismissal by Hitler?
LAMMERS: Yes.
DR. DIX: And this letter of dismissal, I assume, was drafted by you and discussed with Hitler?
LAMMERS: Yes.