TIMM: At Wartburg there was a conference of the presidents of the Gau labor offices. I was there for that conference.
M. HERZOG: Do you remember having spoken there?
TIMM: Yes.
M. HERZOG: Do you remember the statements you made about recruiting methods?
TIMM: I do not recall that so well; no.
M. HERZOG: I will now show you Document Number F-810, which I submitted to the Tribunal under the Exhibit Number RF-1507. The Tribunal will find the extract I want to submit to the witness on Page 10.
You were speaking of the conferences which the Plenipotentiary General for Allocation of Labor was having with the Wehrmacht about its co-operation in compulsory recruiting, and you said: “The Führer has approved the use of measures of coercion to the fullest extent.”
Do you deny that you knew that workers were being recruited for forced deportations?
TIMM: I ask for a moment’s time. I have not yet found the place. It was not shown me before.
These are notes made by some one present, presumably the Military Commander in Paris. I have not my statements on this question at hand, but I should imagine that the GBA, in view of the difficult...