HESSLER: Yes.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Was it emphasized in those instructions that this was only to take place when it could be done without endangering the U-boat?
HESSLER: Yes.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Do you know of the incident of U-boat U-386 which passed some airmen shot down in the Bay of Biscay?
HESSLER: I remember this incident very distinctly.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Then you also remember that this incident took place in the autumn of 1943?
HESSLER: Yes.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Did Commander, U-boats, think, with regard to this incident, that the U-boat commander should have shot at the airmen in the rubber dinghy?
HESSLER: No, on the contrary, he was annoyed because the crew of the aircraft had not been brought along by the U-boat.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Did any other person or persons on the staff put forward the view I have just expressed?