M. HERZOG: I show you Document Number L-61, which was submitted to the Tribunal in the course of the last few sessions. This document bears, as you see, the following heading at the top on the left: “The Delegate for the Four Year Plan, the Plenipotentiary General for the Allocation of Labor.” On the top in the right-hand corner, “Berlin SW 11, Saarlandstrasse 96.” It is dated 26 November 1942, and comes, therefore, from Sauckel’s offices. Is that right?
TIMM: This document comes from the GBA, therefore from Sauckel’s office.
M. HERZOG: Thank you. Did you represent Sauckel at the conferences of the Central Planning Board for the Four Year Plan?
TIMM: I either represented him, or I went with the GBA to take part in the sessions. Not always, but frequently.
M. HERZOG: When you represented him there, you received instructions before going there, did you not?
TIMM: When we had to go to larger and more important conferences, we were informed by Thuringia House that there were to be sessions, and we received our instructions as to how we were to represent the GBA at these sessions.
M. HERZOG: And when you came back from these meetings, you gave Sauckel a report on them, did you not?
TIMM: After the sessions we either reported the results of the conference to him personally, or through his personal advisers.
M. HERZOG: Sauckel then had to take the responsibility for the declarations you made at the various meetings? Is that right?
TIMM: As an official, it was always my duty to make sure when I made reports in a session and to ascertain...