“According to an oral confidential agreement between the Vice President, Mr. Puhl, and the chief of one of Berlin’s public offices, the Reichsbank has taken over the converting of domestic and foreign moneys, gold and silver coins, precious metals, securities, jewels, watches, diamonds, and other valuable articles. These deposits will be processed under the code name ‘Melmer.’

“The large amounts of jewelry, and so forth, acquired hereby have previously been turned over—after checking the number of pieces and, insofar as they had not been melted down, the approximate weights given—to the Municipal Pawn Shop, Division III, Main Office, Berlin N 4, Elsässer Strasse 74, for the best possible realization of value.”

I am not going to read all of it. It goes on with more material about the pawnshop, but I want to call your attention to the paragraph beginning:

“The Reich Marshal of the Greater German Reich, the Delegate for the Four Year Plan, informs the Reichsbank in his letter of 19 March 1944, copy of which is enclosed, that the considerable amounts of gold and silver objects, jewels, and so forth at the Main Office of Trustees for the East (Haupttreuhandstelle Ost) are to be delivered to the Reichsbank according to an order issued by Reich Ministers Funk and Graf Schwerin von Krosigk. The converting of these objects must be accomplished in the same way as the ‘Melmer’ deliveries.

“At the same time the Reich Marshal informs us on the converting of objects of the same kind which have been acquired in the occupied western territories. We do not know to which office these objects have been delivered and how they are liquidated.”

Then there is more about an inquiry and more about this whole business, the pawnshops, and so on. But, first of all, I want to ask you: In the first paragraph it says “according to a confidential oral agreement between you and the chief of one of Berlin’s public offices”—who was this chief of the Berlin public office who had a confidential agreement about this business with you?

PUHL: That was Herr Pohl. This is the agreement of which we spoke this morning.

MR. DODD: That was Herr Pohl of the SS, wasn’t it?

PUHL: Yes.

MR. DODD: And that was this whole transaction; this whole SS transaction that this memorandum is about, that much of it is about?