DR. SERVATIUS: When did you assume that position?
STOTHFANG: One year after the Plenipotentiary General for the Allocation of Labor had assumed office; that was on 19 April 1943.
DR. SERVATIUS: Was the witness Timm there when you came?
STOTHFANG: Yes.
DR. SERVATIUS: And the witness Hildebrandt?
STOTHFANG: Yes.
DR. SERVATIUS: What orders did you receive when you came?
STOTHFANG: The Plenipotentiary General for the Allocation of Labor did not give any special personal directives because his general principles could be clearly seen in his decrees and in his program, and I only started work 1 year later.
DR. SERVATIUS: Before that, had you already been in the Ministry of Labor?
STOTHFANG: Yes, I had been connected with that type of work since 1926; and for the last 8 years I was the personal assistant of State Secretary Dr. Syrup in the Ministry of Labor.