DR. DIX: I now call the witness Vocke with Your Lordship’s permission.
[The witness Vocke took the stand.]
THE PRESIDENT: Will you state your full name?
WILHELM VOCKE (Witness): Wilhelm Vocke.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you repeat this oath after me: I swear by God—the Almighty and Omniscient—that I will speak the pure truth—and will withhold and add nothing.
[The witness repeated the oath in German.]
THE PRESIDENT: You may sit down.
DR. DIX: Herr Vocke, you were a member of the Directorate of the Reichsbank. When did you enter the Reichsbank Directorate, and when did you resign from it?
VOCKE: Reich President Ebert appointed me a member of the Reichsbank Directorate in 1919, and Hitler dismissed me from office on 1 February 1939. Therefore, I was for about 20 years a member of the Reichsbank Directorate, and for 10 of these years I was under Schacht.
DR. DIX: Excuse me, but I must ask you, were you a member of the Party?