DR. FLÄCHSNER: I should like to comment briefly on one factor. Document
Number 1 is of value only if the Tribunal decides to call an expert on
the general themes which I described to the Tribunal before the recess.
An expert—for practical purposes an industrial expert—can draw from
the old distribution plan conclusions which the jurist is generally not
in a position to draw. If the expert is considered superfluous by the
Tribunal, then Document Number 1 is also superfluous—that I see.
The other documents requested by me are of importance, but not because,
as the Prosecution seem to assume, I am trying to produce evidence of
the fact that we did not want any foreign laborers; this should not be
expressed so pointedly.
The Defendant Speer had the task of producing armaments and needed
workers for that. Nothing is farther from his intentions than, in any
way, to deny or lessen his responsibility in respect to that. But what I
have to consider important—and for this purpose these documents, which
I am requesting, are essential—is the task of defining the extent to
which the defendant is responsible.