BÜCHS: From November 1943 I was a General Staff officer of the Air Force serving with the Chief of the Armed Forces Operations Staff; and in that capacity I was second adjutant to General Jodl.
DR. JAHRREISS: And were you in this position until the end of the war?
BÜCHS: I remained in this position until the end, until our arrest on 23 May 1945.
DR. JAHRREISS: Witness, during this time in which you were in the Führer’s headquarters, were you in the various compounds of these headquarters?
BÜCHS: Yes. I was in the headquarters in East Prussia, and in addition to that I was in the headquarters in Berlin, and in 1944 also in Berchtesgaden.
DR. JAHRREISS: It has been said that there was a Party clique at the Führer’s headquarters. Do you know anything about that?
BÜCHS: If I am to understand by that a circle of people, I would name Fegelein, Bormann, and Burgdorf.
DR. JAHRREISS: You would say that that was a clique?
BÜCHS: These were three gentlemen who were in very close personal and official contact, and who made that impression on outsiders.
DR. JAHRREISS: Was this very close official and personal relationship between themselves or with others?