Q. Were these verbatim records ever controlled?
A. No, I don’t think so. I don’t believe that the large records were read or checked by someone else.
Q. Can one say then that the decisions of the Jaegerstab were contained in the records?
A. Not only the decisions but also the more important deliberations that took place. However, when decisions were made, then they were included in the result records.
Q. During these conferences did it ever occur that the participants were not always present?
A. That happened very often because the sessions lasted for a long time and it happened many times that I, for instance, was called out and ordered to take care of my business, at least by telephone, and the members of the Jaegerstab themselves did not always participate in the conferences, but later on—that is, from May on—they had representatives or deputies replace them.
Q. Did those sessions often result in individual discussions?
A. That happened once in a while, particularly when technical questions were discussed where very few experts could say something.
Q. I shall now proceed to the labor assignment within the Jaegerstab. How did the Jaegerstab deal with questions of labor assignment?
A. Along with all the production discussions of other programs, labor assignment questions were discussed at the sessions of the Jaegerstab. I had the task, concerning these labor assignment questions, to pass them through my office chief and so far as the tasks I had with the Jaegerstab overlapped my other duties and tasks with other organizations; in other words, if you want to know exactly or if you want to have a detailed description of what my tasks were in general—