Q. Witness, you have said that the order from the Chief Public Prosecutor at Duesseldorf to the police, to arrest Kluettgen, had not been complied with, and now you say Kluettgen came to see you. Did you, as attorney general, not have the possibility to arrest Kluettgen immediately?
A. No, I did not have that possibility. It was a Saturday evening, I was alone in my apartment, and I had no weapons.
Q. You said that Kluettgen had been transferred to the Aix-la-Chapelle district, and you said that the agency for which Kluettgen worked had done that. In carrying out your investigations, did you find any indications that that was done intentionally in order to remove Kluettgen from your jurisdiction?
A. I did not find indications, and I certainly did not find any proof, but the possibility exists. However, it is also quite possible that Kluettgen was transferred from the Kranenburg district because the population was excited.
Q. Could you just tell the Tribunal approximately when the Allied troops arrived in Duesseldorf or Aix-la-Chapelle, the district where Kluettgen was staying at the time.
A. Yes. I can’t tell you exactly when the Allied troops arrived in Aix-la-Chapelle, but they arrived in Oberkassel, on the left bank of the Rhine, at the beginning of March, and as far as I remember, they got to Duesseldorf in April.
Q. Up to that time proceedings were continued, were they?
A. Yes.
Q. And later on, after you had received the support from the Ministry, no instructions to the contrary were issued to you?
A. No contrary instructions were issued to me. The matter was concluded. All that was missing was an interrogation of the Kreisleiter.