CROSS-EXAMINATION
Dr. Koessl (counsel for defendant Rothaug): Witness, your position was that of chief of a department?
Witness Elkar: No, in an Abschnitt. May I point out that there was no such expression as Abteilung; there were special departments, Referate.
Q. So it was Referat III-A?
A. Referat III-A.
Q. Referat III-A was part of the home forces?
A. Yes.
Q. Your work with Rothaug was based on general directives, on the basis of which the SD groups had to get in contact with the Special Courts; is that correct?
A. The real cause for the contact with Rothaug as presiding judge of the Special Court was, as I explained yesterday, the desire of the inspector of the Security Police and the SD in Munich to be informed about the decisions of the Special Courts, or to remain currently informed about their decisions, because the inspector of the Security Police and the SD in Munich was, at the same time, supposed to send reports to the Reich defense commissar who, at that time, was in Munich, but whose field was all of Bavaria. A measure of that kind was of a local nature, at first only for Bavaria, an internal instruction, let us say, from the RSHA, because a contact of that kind did not exist at that time.
Q. But it was a contact which was taken up all over Bavaria?