A: Yes, that is correct, I remember the name pectin.

Q: And who was charged to conduct these pectin experiments?

A: I remember, I think, that was Dr. Kunzengruber, a physician who was later released.

Q: Did Dr. Ploetner have anything to do with these matters?

A: Yes. I assume that at the time Dr. Ploetner took over the Ahnenerbe was carrying out pectin experiments.

Q: Did Sievers have any discussions with Dr. Schilling?

A: I know that he went to Dr. Schilling on two occasions.

Q: Were these just personal visits or were they business visits?

A: I can not say because I did not attend these visits.

Q: But since you were in a position to observe anything so well, you may perhaps tell me something about the duration of these visits?

A: I think they were short visits.

Q: And do you know whether there [was] a correspondence, an exchange of letters between Sievers and Schilling?

A: I only know that the Reich physician wrote to Professor Schilling stating that Dr. Ploetner was leaving us and was transferring to the Ahnenerbe and that Standartenfuehrer Sievers would settle the matter.

Q: Can you state the year approximately?

A: That must have been at the end of 1943 or the beginning of 1944; I can not remember exactly.

Q: Well, that is the time when Sievers visited Ploetner?

A: Yes, that is right.

Q: Were so-called exhibition patients presented to Sievers?

A: I only know that on various occasions they went to the hospital but I don't know where they went to.

Q: Did they merely pass through the corridor or did Dr. Ploetner and Sievers actually remain in the hospital for any length of time?

A: At the office of Dr. Ploetner, an office which then belonged to the malaria station, they had conferences occasionally and I thin[k] subsequently they went to the station Ahnenerbe, but I can not remember that in detail.