M. HERZOG: Who signed the orders concerning forced labor in Holland?
SAUCKEL: I assume that Herr Seyss-Inquart did.
M. HERZOG: Is it correct that the orders signed by the Defendant Seyss-Inquart constituted only a local application of the general program which you were charged with carrying out?
SAUCKEL: A local application in Holland? I do not quite understand it the way it is put in German.
M. HERZOG: Is it not correct that by signing the orders concerning forced labor in Holland the Defendant Seyss-Inquart was but implementing your program of forced labor?
SAUCKEL: It was a realization of the Führer’s labor program as he, the Führer, had ordered it.
M. HERZOG: Did you go to Belgium or to Holland in order to control the implementation of the laws on forced labor?
SAUCKEL: Not to control. I was in Belgium and Holland only for a very short time. I had conferences there with the leading men, and according to my recollection I visited the labor authorities in Antwerp and saw how they functioned—the German ones.
M. HERZOG: And in the course of these journeys you were preparing detailed measures for the implementation of the labor program, is that not true?
SAUCKEL: I did not draft them during those journeys; I discussed them there. Of course, I did some work while traveling.