Consequently, the placing in security of works of art was clearly a means of allowing the Reich authorities to take them into Germany; isn’t that true?
SEYSS-INQUART: There is no doubt about that. Regarding the Rembrandt picture, I should only like to say that it had come into Holland illegally; and therefore it was confiscated.
M. DEBENEST: And it was taken to Germany by legal means?
SEYSS-INQUART: I believe that in the case of the Rembrandt picture there was no question at all, because in this case a German regulation had been violated.
M. DEBENEST: In addition to paintings, you also procured for yourself a large number of works of art and diamonds, precious stones, and so on?
SEYSS-INQUART: I know nothing about that.
M. DEBENEST: You know nothing about that, but do you know that you have a house in Vienna at Untergasse, Number 3?
SEYSS-INQUART: No, that is Iglauer Strasse 15. However, that may be true, yes.
M. DEBENEST: Had you not deposited a certain number of works of art which had come from the Netherlands?
SEYSS-INQUART: I know nothing about that.