A. From the Ministry of the Interior. It was given to us by the superior office of the Ministry of the Interior.
Q. You mean the Reich Minister of the Interior?
A. Yes.
Q. You further mentioned that the action was concluded in August 1941, that it was stopped. Do you know the reason for this?
A. Yes. I do not know the official reason, but I heard of it unofficially. I heard that Herr von Galen protested, and that was probably why the whole procedure was stopped. I emphasize that I don’t know for certain, but anyway for me it was a reason.
Q. Well was this procedure actually stopped everywhere in the end?
A. No. When Hadamar was closed I immediately assumed that some other institution would continue this task or that the procedure would be followed up in some other way. That is also what Mr. von Hegener said when he was there.
Q. You said that these Eastern workers were collected by the same busses as before?
A. Yes. The busses were the same. They were big black busses, and we knew the drivers because they came frequently.
Q. To whom did the busses belong? To the Gauleiter’s office?