DR. STEINBAUER: Were you not also, at the same time, the deputy of the Reich Commissioner?
WIMMER: In exceptional cases, not otherwise.
DR. STEINBAUER: Did you also participate in the regular weekly official conferences of the commissioners general and the secretaries general with the Reich Commissioner?
WIMMER: Yes.
DR. STEINBAUER: Therefore, you were fully informed about events in the occupied Netherlands?
WIMMER: In general, yes.
DR. STEINBAUER: Now I ask you: Was the German Police a part of the offices of the RK, or the Reich Commissioner, or was it not rather independently subordinate to the Berlin central offices?
WIMMER: The German Police was a distinct office, separate from the Reich Commissioner’s office, and was subordinate to the respective central offices in the Reich, both administratively and actually.
DR. STEINBAUER: That is to say, then, directly subordinate to the Reichsführer SS Himmler?
WIMMER: It was directly subordinate to the Reichsführer SS.