PUHL: Yes, I repeat what I said earlier; when Pohl was in my office he told me that he would appoint two people to negotiate the transaction with the Reichsbank, and they were the two people just mentioned; I passed on their names to the cashier’s office.
MR. DODD: What was the name under which these deposits were known in the Reichsbank?
PUHL: I heard of the name under which these deposits were known in the Reichsbank for the first time in Frankfurt, when I saw it in the files.
MR. DODD: Don’t you know the name Melmer, M-e-l-m-e-r?
PUHL: Yes, from my time in Frankfurt.
MR. DODD: Didn’t you on one occasion call Herr Thoms on the telephone and ask him how the “Melmer” deposits were coming along?
PUHL: I am afraid I didn’t quite understand.
MR. DODD: Well, I say, didn’t you on one occasion at least call Herr Thoms on the telephone in the Reichsbank and ask him how the “Melmer” deposits were coming along?
PUHL: No, I could not have put that question because I did not know the word “Melmer.”
MR. DODD: You don’t know that Melmer was the name of an SS man? You don’t know that?