A. My department was subordinate to the GL, and therefore received orders from that office concerning the treatment of pilots who had made emergency landings, and such orders were to the effect to inform the Buergermeister [mayors] and the councillors that the prisoners who had made emergency landings should be sent to Oberursel at once.
Q. Then were these orders given or were they repeated in certain cases?
A. I myself went there in 1942 to that office and I remember very well that the first orders in this respect were given in 1943 and then in 1944.
Q. Have these orders provided for the taking of prisoners of all pilots by the Luftwaffe and taking them to Oberursel?
A. The GL ordered, followed by the threatening of heavy punishment if the orders were not followed, that all pilots who bailed out or made emergency landings should be taken at once in the quickest way possible to Oberursel.
Q. Did you transmit these orders to the mayors and councillors of your district?
A. These orders were passed on by the commander of the testing station to the ground organization of the base, passed on to all Buergermeister and the city councillors.
Q. Can you confirm that these orders came from Milch?
A. They came from the GL. It was even ordered how we should proceed. As far as I can recall we were ordered, among other things, that the contents of their pockets should be taken away from the pilots and sent to Oberursel with an accompanying letter.
Q. Did you know at that time that the Party wanted the pilots to be treated in a different manner?