FUNK: At that time I do not believe so. Of course, I do not know what took place later.
THE PRESIDENT: The Prosecution?
MR. DODD: Witness, can you hear me?
FUNK: Yes.
MR. DODD: We have listened to your testimony since late Friday afternoon, and, as we understand it from your statements, you admit none of the charges made against you in the Indictment in any degree, with possibly one exception; I am not clear as to whether or not you were making an admission this morning with respect to your part in the persecution of the Jews. Would you tell us now whether or not you intended to admit your own guilt or the part that you played in the persecution of the Jews?
FUNK: I said this morning that I had a deep sense of guilt and a deep sense of shame about the things which were done to the Jews in Germany, and that at the time when the terror and violence began I was involved in a strong conflict with my conscience. I felt, I could almost say, that a great injustice was being done. However, I did not feel guilty in respect to the Indictment against me here, that is, that according to the Indictment I was guilty of Crimes against Humanity because I signed the directives for carrying out laws which had been issued by superior offices—laws that had to be made so that the Jews would not be entirely deprived of their rights, and so that they would be given some legal protection at least in regard to compensation and settlement. I am admitting a guilt against myself, a moral guilt, but not a guilt because I signed the directives for carrying out the laws; in any event not a guilt against humanity.
MR. DODD: All right. That’s what I wanted to thoroughly understand. You also told the Tribunal, that you—I think you used the expression “often at the door but never let in,” and I understand that to mean that in your own judgment you were really a little man in this Nazi organization. Is that so?
FUNK: Yes...
MR. DODD: All right. That’s an answer. You might want to explain it later, but for the present purposes that will do.
FUNK: May I give an explanation to this. I wanted to state that in the position I held, there were always higher authorities which made the final decision. That was the case in all the positions I held in the State.