The Reich offices themselves were competent in that respect. But it should have been of great interest to you what happened there. That I was interested from a humane and personal point of view can be seen from the fact that I was concerned about these things although they were not within my competence. But you spoke here about one case in which it was reported to you that a cinema had been surrounded. I immediately had that case most carefully investigated, and the investigation took three months.
Witnesses can testify to that when they appear here.
The manager thereupon interrupted the celebration in a very drastic way by authorising the immediate transportation of these workers by the police. So that, of course, had nothing to do with my task and my organization, but it took me three months to discover the true facts of this complaint by Field Marshal Kluge. In every case where such complaints came to my attention I investigated and dealt with them and condemned them, because they did not help me. Q. We will leave this matter of recruitment now and turn to the question of the transportation of these people to Germany. For the transportation the German Reichsbahn and the offices designated in my Directive No. 4, regional offices and regional labour departments were responsible.