Dr. Schilf (counsel for defendant Klemm): What was the last position you held in the administration of justice?
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Witness Hagemann: I was attorney general [Generalstaatsanwalt] at Duesseldorf.
Q. Since when had you been attorney general at Duesseldorf?
A. Since 1937.
Q. Herr Hagemann, can you remember that in 1944, the Reich Minister of Justice, Thierack, had issued a so-called circular directive[304] to all attorneys general which contained an instruction to the effect that in cases where the German population had exercised lynch justice the prosecution had been instructed to report to the Ministry about such cases?
A. Yes, I remember such a decree.
Q. Can you tell the Tribunal what the text was?
A. No, I cannot tell you that. I can tell you the contents and what it said was that in such cases a report had to be made to the Minister.
Q. Did that decree say anything to the effect that the Minister intended to quash all such cases?