COL. PHILLIMORE: Now, naval prisoners, when they were captured by your forces, their capture was reported to the naval war staff, was it not?
WAGNER: Such captures were, in general, reported as part of the situation reports.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Now, do you remember the Commando Order of 18 October 1942?
WAGNER: Yes.
COL. PHILLIMORE: You actually signed the order passing that Führer Order on to commands, did you not?
WAGNER: Yes.
COL. PHILLIMORE: My Lord, the document is C-179, and that was put in as United States Exhibit 543 (USA-543). It is in that bundle that Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe handed to the Tribunal when cross-examining the defendant. I think it is either the last or very near to the last document in the bundle.
[Turning to the witness.] Did you approve of that order?
WAGNER: I regretted that one had to resort to this order, but in the first paragraph the reasons for it are set forth so clearly that I had to recognize its justification.
COL. PHILLIMORE: You knew what handing over to the SD meant, did you not? You knew that meant shooting?