[Signed] Ruth
Certified: Court Official
EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESS RUDOLF LEHMANN[461]
DIRECT EXAMINATION
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Mr. King: Will you tell us briefly what your rank was and what your duties were in the High Command of the Armed Forces?
Witness Lehmann: I was the Ministerialdirektor in the High Command of the Armed Forces, and I was Chief of the Legal Division of the Armed Forces.
Q. Do you know of the so-called Nacht und Nebel Decree which was issued in the latter part of 1941 over the signature of Keitel?
A. I am very well informed as to how that came about.
Q. Will you tell us briefly how the Nacht und Nebel program was supposed to work? In other words, what was the theory upon which this “Erlass” or decree was issued?