SAUCKEL: In this version, yes, because the institution...
M. HERZOG: This statement was given under oath, and your testimony today
is given under oath. The Tribunal will take note of it.
SAUCKEL: I say with full consciousness that to the best of my
recollection this version is not completely correct. Laws regarding
labor in occupied territories were not made on my order but on the order
of the Führer, and I did not have any argument about it with General Von
Falkenhausen. We discussed it in a very friendly way, and he introduced
the law. I do not remember having had any difficulties in this
connection. And in another paragraph he states here that at that time he
gave all his instructions on Hitler’s orders. I myself had neither
arguments nor difficulties with him.
M. HERZOG: Is it correct that in Holland the deportation of Dutch
workers for forced labor was under the jurisdiction of the
Reichskommissariat?
SAUCKEL: Please, would you hear the Defendant Seyss-Inquart about that?
The expression jurisdiction is entirely new to me. In France, Belgium,
and Holland this matter was dealt with through the administration of the
labor departments, that is to say...