Text: English     International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 3, p. 270
		6 Dec. 45 "In the further developments, I was supported by Commander Schreiber, Naval Attaché in Oslo, and the M-Chief personally — in conjunction with the Rosenberg organization. Thus we got in touch with Quisling and Hagelin, who came to Berlin in the beginning of December and were taken to the Führer by me — with the approval of Reichsleiter Rosenberg . . . ." I will later draw the attention of the Tribunal to the developments in December. The details of the manner in which the Defendant Raeder did make contact personally with Quisling are not very clear. But I would draw the Court's attention to the Document C-65, which precedes . . . THE PRESIDENT: Would you read the end of that paragraph? MAJOR JONES: With your Lordship's permission, I would like to revert to that in a later stage in my unfolding of the evidence. In the Document C-65, which will be Exhibit GB-85, we have a report of Rosenberg to Raeder in which the full extent of Quisling's preparedness for treachery and his potential usefulness to the Nazi aggressors was reported and disclosed to the Defendant Raeder. Paragraph 1 of that report deals with matters which I have already dealt with in reading Rosenberg's statement, 007-PS. But if the Court will look at the second paragraph of Exhibit GB-85, C-65, it reads as follows: "The reasons for a coup, on which Quisling made a report, would be provided by the fact that the Storthing" — that is to say the Norwegian parliament — "had, in defiance of the constitution, passed a resolution prolonging its own life which is to become operative on January 12th. Quisling still retains in his capacity as a long-standing officer and a former Minister of War the closest relations with the Norwegian Army. He showed me the original of a letter which he had received only a short time previously from the commanding officer in Narvik, Colonel Sunlo. In this letter Colonel Sunlo frankly lays emphasis on the fact that if things went on as they were going at present, Norway was finished." If the Court will turn to the next page of that document, the last two paragraphs, the details of a treacherous plot to overthrow the government of his own country, by the traitor Quisling in collaboration with the Defendant Rosenberg, will be indicated to the Court. "A plan has been put forward which deals with the possibility of a coup and which provides for a number of selected Norwegians to be trained in Germany with all possible speed 270
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