Q. Now, do you ever recall saying that you would put the German workers into concentration camps, the ones who did not work well?
A. When I talked about slackers, I referred to education by Himmler, but not to sending them into concentration camps. Himmler had other training places for workers where such people who were disinclined to work were being trained by making their supplementary rations dependent on their production.
Q. Don’t you recall that you asked that certain camps be set up especially to take care of these German workers who weren’t doing well?
A. I did not say that we should make a special camp, but that they should go to the training camps which already existed and we could get them back from there. I do wish to emphasize here these were people, Germans, who did not do their duty towards their Fatherland. I thought it justified that such people should be trained.
Mr. Denney: Witness, I believe you said you kept a diary?
A. A diary? You could not call it exactly a diary, I only took some short notes concerning my stay, and I jotted down a few key words which conveyed generally the most important matters.
Q. That was lost, was it, or destroyed, when you were captured?
A. It has not been lost. I still have it here.
Q. That is what you are referring to?