DR. SAUTER: Dr. Funk, the Prosecution has held you responsible for laws decreed during your term of office as press chief of the Reichsregierung. I refer, for instance, to the laws submitted under Documents Number 2962-PS and 2963-PS. These are the laws well known to you and which concern the abolition of civil rights in Germany and the abolition of the parliamentary form of government. I ask you to explain, what did you have to do with these laws? Did you as press chief under the Reich Government have any influence on the contents and promulgation of these laws?
FUNK: No. This question has already been answered in the negative by both the Reich Marshal and Dr. Lammers. All I had to do was to pass on the contents of these laws to the press, in accordance with instructions given to me by the Führer.
DR. SAUTER: So you were surely present at the sessions of the Reich Cabinet...
FUNK: Yes.
DR. SAUTER: And you took note of the deliberations and resolutions of the Reich Cabinet...
FUNK: Yes.
DR. SAUTER: That was the reason of your presence there; but your sole duty—and please tell me if I am correct—was to inform the press, after the cabinet sessions, of the decisions made? Is that correct?
FUNK: Yes, that is correct.
DR. SAUTER: So you had no influence on the drafting or on the contents of the laws, nor on the voting? Is that right?
FUNK: Yes, that is right. I had neither a seat nor a vote in the Cabinet.