TIMM: Yes.
M. HERZOG: Do you remember the statements you made about recruiting
methods?
TIMM: I do not recall that so well; no.
M. HERZOG: I will now show you Document Number F-810, which I submitted
to the Tribunal under the Exhibit Number RF-1507. The Tribunal will find
the extract I want to submit to the witness on Page 10.
You were speaking of the conferences which the Plenipotentiary General
for Allocation of Labor was having with the Wehrmacht about its
co-operation in compulsory recruiting, and you said: “The Führer has
approved the use of measures of coercion to the fullest extent.”
Do you deny that you knew that workers were being recruited for forced
deportations?
TIMM: I ask for a moment’s time. I have not yet found the place. It was
not shown me before.
These are notes made by some one present, presumably the Military
Commander in Paris. I have not my statements on this question at hand,
but I should imagine that the GBA, in view of the difficult...