M. HERZOG: You declared in your interrogatory that the very close relations between Speer and Goebbels after the fall of Stalingrad made Speer want particularly to have you under his authority. Can you confirm this?
SAUCKEL: Yes.
M. HERZOG: Is it true that your general program for recruiting labor included the employment of prisoners of war?
SAUCKEL: The employment of prisoners of war as far as they should and could be put to work under the care of the Wehrmacht.
M. HERZOG: Do you remember the decree which we mentioned this morning, your Decree Number 10, which stipulated the order of priority of work and gave priority to armament? Was this order applicable to prisoners of war as well?
SAUCKEL: As I explained yesterday, this decree was applicable to prisoners of war only by way of exchange, and to the extent as set forth in the rules of work issued by the OKW and by me in a catalog of work.
M. HERZOG: But Article 8 of this decree stipulates only that it was applicable to prisoners of war.
SAUCKEL: Yes, in accordance, of course, with the other decrees which existed; that was a matter of course.
M. HERZOG: You spoke to us yesterday about inspectorates. Is it true that in September 1943 you came to an agreement with Dr. Ley concerning the setting up of a central inspectorate for foreign workers?
SAUCKEL: Yes, for the purposes of their welfare.