MR. DODD: All right. If you did know it, would that make some difference to you; and would you change your testimony some?
HAYLER: I am not aware of the fact that Funk is supposed to have had this attitude or...
MR. DODD: Very well. Perhaps I can help you by reading to you from his interrogation of 22 October 1945, made here in Nuremberg. Among other things, he was asked these few questions and made a few answers:
“As a matter of fact, you were present at many meetings of the Central Planning Board, were you not?”
Funk answered and said:
“I was present at the meetings of the Central Planning Board only when something was required for my small sector; that is to say, something which had to do with the export and consumer goods industries as, for example, iron. I had to put up a fight on each occasion to get just a few thousand tons for my consumer goods industry.”
The next question was:
“Yes, but during those meetings you attended, you heard, did you not, discussions concerning forced labor?”
Funk answered: “Yes.”
“Question: ‘And you knew from those meetings that the policy was to bring in more and more foreign workers to the Reich against their will?’ ”