A. I was not present, but I assumed that it must have been so. I cannot prove it, however.
Q. So. This afternoon you told me what you thought Milch’s function was in the Jaegerstab. You used a rather striking expression. Would you like to repeat it here?
A. I called him “the breakfast director”. I ask the defendant to pardon the expression. He shouldn’t hold it against me.
Q. What do you mean by this “breakfast director”?
A. Well, it is sort of difficult for me to tell that.
Q. Milch won’t be angry.
A. Well, I only saw him at a Jaegerstab meeting once, when he invited me and when he asked for the support of the Todt Organization. He explained to me the general situation. He told me what his worries and troubles were, but the real work, the whole functioning of the thing, I don’t believe he concerned himself with. That is why I used the expression “breakfast director,” but perhaps that was a little exaggerated.
Q. I quite understand. After the end of April 1944, when you were commissioned with these construction matters, what did you do?
A. As I told Hitler very exactly, I took Todt Organization units from France and from the Atlantic Wall.
Q. How many were there?