THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): How long before the explosion were you looking at Bormann?
KEMPKA: All this happened in a very brief period. When I was still talking to Bormann the tanks turned up and we passed the tank trap right away and after 30 or 40 meters the tank was hit.
THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): What do you call a brief period?
KEMPKA: Well, while we were talking, that was perhaps a few minutes only.
THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): And how long between the conversation and the explosion?
KEMPKA: I cannot tell you the exact time, but surely it was not a quarter of an hour, or perhaps rather not half an hour.
THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): Had you been in the Chancellery just before this?
KEMPKA: I left the Reich Chancellery in the evening about 9 o’clock.
THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): Have you ever told this story to anyone else?
KEMPKA: I have been interrogated several times on this subject and have already made the same statement.