DR. SAUTER: When did Funk tell you that he had been asked to keep it secret?
PUHL: I do not remember that.
DR. SAUTER: Did you not ask him why it should be kept secret, absolutely secret, as you say? I do not know whether you still maintain “absolutely secret”?
PUHL: Yes, a special duty of observing secrecy was to be imposed on the officials.
DR. SAUTER: Well, what did you, as Vice President, as Managing Vice President, say to that?
PUHL: I did not say anything because, if that had been agreed upon, then this wish would have to be complied with.
DR. SAUTER: But you do not know whether it had been agreed upon?
PUHL: Well, I assume that it was agreed upon.
DR. SAUTER: You consider it possible?
PUHL: Yes.