M. DEBENEST: Before coming to the Netherlands you had been adjutant to the Governor General of Poland?
SEYSS-INQUART: Not adjutant, but the deputy.
M. DEBENEST: All the better. Consequently you had heard about this camp, had you not?
SEYSS-INQUART: At that time Auschwitz did not even exist.
M. DEBENEST: But did you not know that the ashes of those 1,000 Jews who had been sent to Buchenwald or Mauthausen were sent back to their families against payment of 75 guilders? This happened in 1941. That did not prevent you later on from taking other measures against the Jews, measures which necessarily led to their being deported?
SEYSS-INQUART: Because to my thinking this measure, which was first of all called an evacuation, is something completely different from a deportation or removal to a concentration camp.
M. DEBENEST: But after all you knew the fate of these Jews who were transported to a camp in this manner?
SEYSS-INQUART: Most people, the great majority, did not know of this fate as it is known to us today; and I testified yesterday as to my misgivings.
M. DEBENEST: That is an opinion. You spoke yesterday of reprisals taken against the newspaper in The Hague...
THE PRESIDENT: [Interposing.] Is this something you cross-examined about yesterday?