WAGNER: It was my task to submit all important matters to the Chief of Staff of the Naval Operations Staff, and he decided which matters were to be submitted to the Grossadmiral.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Are you saying that you would not have shown this to the Chief of Staff?
WAGNER: No. I am sure he had knowledge of it.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Have you any doubt that this order would have been shown to Admiral Raeder?
WAGNER: That I cannot say; I do not recall whether he received it.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Now I want to ask one or two questions about your tasks as Admiral, Special Duties. You became Admiral, Special Duties, in June 1944, is that right?
WAGNER: Yes.
COL. PHILLIMORE: And from then on you attended the important conferences with Admiral Dönitz and in his absence represented him, did you not?
WAGNER: I never participated in any discussions as his representative. Dönitz was represented by the Chief of the SKL.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Now at that stage of the war all questions were important insofar as they affected military operations in one way or another, were they not?