MR. DODD: And you said, “I am a guilty man.” You told us yesterday it was because you were upset a little bit in the general situation. I am suggesting to you that is it not a fact that this matter that we have been talking about since yesterday has been on your conscience all the time and that was really what is on your mind, and it has been a shadow on you ever since you have been in custody? And is it not about time that you told the whole story?
FUNK: I cannot tell more to the Tribunal than I have already said, that is the truth. Let Herr Puhl be responsible before God for what he put in the affidavit; I am responsible for what I state here. It is absolutely clear that Herr Puhl is now trying to put the blame on me and to exculpate himself. If he has done these things for years with the SS, it is his guilt and his responsibility. I have only spoken to him two or three times about these things, that is, about the things I have mentioned here.
MR. DODD: You are trying to put the blame on Puhl, are you not?
FUNK: No. He is blaming me and I repudiate that.
MR. DODD: The trouble is, there was blood on this gold, was there not, and you knew this since 1942?
FUNK: I did not understand.
MR. DODD: Well, I would like to ask you one or two questions about two short documents. It will take but a short time. You told the Tribunal yesterday that you had nothing to do with any looting of these occupied countries. Do you know what the Roges corporation was?
FUNK: Yes. I do not know in detail what they did. I know only that it was an organization which made official purchases for various Reich departments.
MR. DODD: This Roges corporation purchased on the black market in France with the surpluses from the occupation cost fund, did it not?
FUNK: I was against this type of purchases in the black market.