I should like to give here, however, only two figures, two ratios, which throw light on the whole situation. Up to the war two-thirds of Germany’s total production went to private consumption and only one-third for public needs. Up to that point, therefore, the armament industry did not play a decisive role.
DR. SAUTER: Dr. Funk, now we will turn to another chapter.
You will remember that the Prosecution contended in their trial brief that the evidence against you was largely circumstantial. I assume, therefore, that it was based upon your offices rather than your actions. For this reason I should be interested to know which Party offices you held during the period which followed.
FUNK: Only once, in the year 1932...
DR. SAUTER: That is to say in the Party—not government offices.
FUNK: I understand. Only in the year 1932, and then for only a few months, did I receive Party assignments, because Gregor Strasser wanted to set up for me an office of my own, for private economy. This office, however, was dissolved a few months later when he himself resigned from the Party and from his offices. Then in December 1932 I was instructed to take charge of a committee for economic policy.
DR. SAUTER: In December 1932?
FUNK: Yes. And in February 1933, that is, 2 months afterwards, I gave up this office again. Both assignments were unimportant and never really got going in the short time they lasted. All the gentlemen in the dock who were in leading positions in the Party at that time can confirm this. I never had any other Party office; so that after 1933 I received no further assignments from the Party and no Party office either.
DR. SAUTER: Then this so-called Office for Private Economy (Amt für Privatwirtschaft), if I understood you correctly, existed for just a few months in the year 1932 but did not actually function. And in December 1932 you were made head of the other office, the Committee for Economic Policy as it was called. Then a month later, in January 1933...
FUNK: February 1933.