A. I couldn’t tell you, because I did not know the situation with the SS. However, that is possible.
Q. The question was: If the SS ever used miners from their own ranks and if they trained them?
A. No. I don’t know anything about that either.
Q. Do you know if the SS had a miners’ school?
A. No. I don’t know that either. I never heard of any miners’ school. The miners learned by experience.
[Tr. pp. 743-759]
Q. What do you know about labor utilization of English and American prisoners of war? That is to say, Americans and British who were captured in Germany?
A. In 1944, that is to say, in my time, no new prisoners of war were used because we didn’t capture any more. So far as I know, British and American prisoners of war were not used in armament factories. Repeatedly, proposals in this direction were made also in the case of noncoms and officers. In the case of officers—it was Polish officers, if I recall, no change in the regulations was made, so far as I recall. Instructions were transmitted to the OKW, but I do not know if anything came of them.