THE PRESIDENT: Will you repeat this oath after me: I swear by God—the Almighty and Omniscient:—that I will speak the pure truth—and will withhold and add nothing.
[The witness repeated the oath.]
THE PRESIDENT: You may sit down.
DR. BERGOLD: Witness, in what capacity were you employed near Hitler during the war?
KEMPKA: During the war I worked for Adolf Hitler as his personal driver.
DR. BERGOLD: Did you meet Martin Bormann in that capacity?
KEMPKA: Yes, I met Martin—Reichsleiter Martin Bormann in this capacity at that time as my indirect superior.
DR. BERGOLD: Witness, on what day did you see the Defendant Martin Bormann for the last time?
KEMPKA: I saw the Reichsleiter, the former Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, on the night of 1-2 May 1945 near the Friedrichstrasse railroad station, at the Weidendammer Bridge. Reichsleiter Bormann—former Reichsleiter Bormann—asked me what the general situation was at the Friedrichstrasse station, and I told him that there at the station it was hardly possible...
THE PRESIDENT: You are going too fast. He asked you what?