“It is not possible for me to be a mere agent for German measures of coercion.”
Do you think that those are friendly remarks?
TIMM: I did not understand one word. “Do you believe that those...”?
M. HERZOG: “...friendly remarks.” You said that these conversations were friendly. I have given you an extract from the contents of these conversations. Do you still say that they were friendly?
TIMM: I can only confirm the spirit of the negotiations in which I took part. I do not recognize these statements in the form you give them to me.
M. HERZOG: If you had known them, would you still have said that they were friendly conversations?
THE PRESIDENT: He was not there. He just said that he did not know about it. We can judge for ourselves whether the tone of it is friendly.
M. HERZOG: Witness, you stated earlier that you had no knowledge of forced deportations.
TIMM: I said that I knew of no forced deportations under the authority of the GBA; and I do not know of any deportations.
M. HERZOG: Do you remember a conference held on 15 and 16 July 1944 at Wartburg, which you attended, and at which Sauckel, a number of chiefs of Gau labor offices, and people who worked with Sauckel were also gathered?