Q. Did the sessions of February and March 1944 deal with labor assignments?
A. Yes.
Q. During these conferences, were they trying to clear the numbers or the figures which were announced by Sauckel?
A. In one of the conferences I remember they wanted to make Sauckel a proposal concerning the distribution of labor he wanted to provide. I remember that the Central Planning Board had a written proposal submitted to him concerning requests about labor assignments. Sauckel said that he would acknowledge this proposal but would take care of the distribution personally.
Q. Did they, during these sessions, try to find out whether the numbers and figures Sauckel reported were correct? If he mentioned figures which were too high, did they speak about those matters in this conference?
A. I do not remember that day. But I know that in various conferences the question of reliability of the figures played a great part. There was always a difference between the figures Sauckel reported and those Speer reported.
Q. Did this apply to figures which Sauckel mentioned as having already been brought in or did it apply to figures on labor still to come?
A. That applied particularly to the numbers of laborers who had already been brought. It was not possible to try to control the number of laborers wanted because it was only something that was being planned, nothing else.
Q. That is correct, but from previous experiences, weren’t they in a position to find out that Sauckel’s promises were not being kept?
A. At the time they doubted that the figures which Sauckel reported could ever be brought in.