Q. At any rate, you didn’t do anything about this after you heard it?
A. Oh, yes. The report was immediately sent to the Luftgau that the pilots had been taken away.
Q. Did you send the report?
A. No. The report had to be sent by the competent office of the ground organization—namely, the airfield.
Q. You never made any effort to find out what happened to these four Allied fliers?
A. Oh, yes, that was passed on at once and the airfield having received it sent it on to the Luftgau and continued to work on this matter. What happened at the end I could not possibly find out because the Luftgau, the next highest office, had to report on it through those channels of command.
Q. You never tried to find out, did you? Did you ever call up anybody over at the Luftgau and ask them what happened to these four fliers?
A. No. I could hardly do that because I belonged to the testing station and there was a certain amount of dualism. It was rather like air activity on the one hand and the ground organization on the other.
Q. You knew what the Hitler order was about terror fliers, didn’t you?
A. Yes. I learned about this much, much later after this emergency landing in 1944. I heard about this in 1945 when I was interrogated in Munich by the Reich Marshal Special Court.