Consequently, your intention was to use the sums in the same manner as the Jewish fortunes, wasn’t it?
SEYSS-INQUART: It doesn’t say that at all.
M. DEBENEST: We have it in writing. That’s still better.
SEYSS-INQUART: The purpose of utilization is perfectly plain. The Reich Minister of Finance wanted to exercise control over Jewish capital; and I called his attention to the fact that it had not been called in, suggesting to him not to call this money into the Reich but to wait and see what the course of events would be.
M. DEBENEST: Were you not proposing to him here that it should be utilized for the same purpose?
SEYSS-INQUART: I suggested to him to use it for certain purposes in the Netherlands, that is, not to send this money into the Reich, but to leave it in the Netherlands; but the use to which it was to be put was left entirely open. He wanted to bring it to the Reich.
THE PRESIDENT: M. Debenest, I think you can pass on.
M. DEBENEST: I was just thinking that we could leave that to the judgment of the Tribunal.
Let us come back to the matter of these railroad strikes. Did you not ask the secretaries general to stop these strikes?
SEYSS-INQUART: Yes.