DR. STAHMER: ...who had fallen into the hands of the Germans?
OBERHÄUSER: I never heard anything about it.
DR. STAHMER: Was there an order, which is supposed to have come from Berlin, that Polish officers who were prisoners of war were to be shot?
OBERHÄUSER: No, such an order was never issued.
DR. STAHMER: Did you yourself ever give such an order?
OBERHÄUSER: I have never given such an order.
DR. STAHMER: Do you know whether Colonel Bedenck or Colonel Ahrens ever caused such shootings to be carried out?
OBERHÄUSER: I am not informed, but I consider it absolutely impossible.
DR. STAHMER: Why?
OBERHÄUSER: First, because such a decisive order would necessarily have gone through me, for I was the direct superior of the regiment; and second, because if such an order had been given, for a reason which I could not understand, and transmitted to the regiment through some obscure channel, then the commanders would most certainly have rung me up or they would have come to see me and said, “General, they are asking something here which we cannot understand.”