A. Yes. That is correct.
Q. Who became competent at that time for the cases of the so-called public undermining of military efficiency?
A. Public undermining of military efficiency was prosecuted by the senior public prosecutors at the special courts and/or was to be tried by the Special Courts.
Q. When in 1943 the cases of so-called public undermining of military efficiency were transferred to the People’s Court, had the law, in effect, been applied for 4 years?
A. Yes.
Q. Is it correct, Witness, that the decision as to whether a public undermining of military efficiency was proved depended upon the following two points: first, what does the legislator mean by an attempt to undermine; and second, when was this attempt to undermine committed in public? Is it correct that those were the two nuclei in this question?
A. Yes.
Q. Is it furthermore correct that, when in 1943 the People’s Court became competent, these two basic questions of undermining of fighting efficiency were based on a general jurisdiction originating first from the Reich Military Court, then the Reich Supreme Court, and then of the Special Court—that these decisions existed already?
A. The Reich Military Court had in several very basic decisions decided these questions without any doubt.
Q. In regard to these points from which it is especially evident that the definition of “public attempt of undermining” had already been laid down definitely in 1943, I shall prove by some further documents. Witness, how did the individual cases of undermining come to your office?