Q. Understanding on the part of the population, of the severity as well as a warning.
A. As far as I remember, the material that was reported was not sufficient in order to judge this—in order to draw such summary conclusions.
Q. Did you, yourself, make observations that the people, the population, felt that they had been warned?
A. That there was a fear of the Special Court is a matter of general knowledge. That this was in connection with the efforts of Rothaug, I cannot judge whether this was so.
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Q. You, yourself, were SS Hauptsturmfuehrer or SD Hauptsturmfuehrer, how was that called?
A. During the course of the war I came to the rank of SD Hauptsturmfuehrer, in 1942.
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT KLEMM[220]
DIRECT EXAMINATION