Q. Father, while you were a priest at Vilseck, were you ever arrested and imprisoned?
A. At Vilseck, I was arrested twice, and at Regensburg, I was arrested once, because after my arrest I was not allowed to go back to Vilseck.
Q. Would you please state the dates, so far as you remember, of each time that you were arrested and imprisoned?
A. Yes. For the first time I was arrested on 1 June 1942, and I was kept in prison for 14 days by the police. That warrant was filled in by the Gestapo. After I had been imprisoned for 2 weeks, I was released. In the meantime, a second warrant for my arrest was issued by the Special Court of Nuernberg, and on 1 July I was arrested again. Then, until 21 August—that is for 7 weeks, I was in custody pending trial at Weiden in the district court prison of Weiden. Then, again, I was released and a few days later another warrant for my arrest was issued again by the Special Court of Nuernberg. Then, I had been in prison until 18 December 1943. For the third time I was arrested, that was at Regensburg—and my arrest was made by the Gestapo.
So, altogether, I was arrested three times; twice at Vilseck and once at Regensburg.
Q. Father, at any time during any of these three arrests, did the police ever tell you who had signed the warrant for your arrest?
A. Yes, when I was arrested the second time, the police commissioner of Vilseck told me that the warrant was issued by Rothaug from the Special Court of Nuernberg.
Q. After you had been arrested, Father, and imprisoned those three times that you describe, you also mentioned a trial. Were you ever indicted and tried before a court?
A. My trial took place on 18 December, that is on 19 December 1942, and the trial took place before the Special Court of Nuernberg at Amberg. The trial took place because of a [Heimtuecke] insidious attack, during a sermon which I had made 15 months before at Vilseck.
Q. Father, you state that you were tried on 19 December 1942, by the Special Court of Nuernberg, but that the trial took place in Amberg. Is that correct?