Text: English     International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 3, p. 271
		6 Dec. 45 for such a purpose, being allotted their exact tasks and provided with experienced and die-hard National Socialists who are practiced in such operations. These trained men should then proceed with all speed to Norway where details would then require to be further discussed. Some important centers in Oslo would have to be taken over forthwith, and at the same time, the German Fleet together with suitable contingents of the German Army would go into operation when summoned specially by the new Norwegian Government in a specified bay at the approaches to Oslo. Quisling has no doubts that such a coup, having been carried out with instantaneous success, would immediately bring him the approval of those sections of the army with which he at present has connections; and thus it goes without saying that he has never discussed a political fight with them. As far as the King is concerned, he believes that he would respect it as an accomplished fact." How wrong Quisling was in that anticipation was shown, of course, by subsequent developments. The last sentence reads: "Quisling gives figures of the number of German troops required which accord with German calculations." The Tribunal may think that there are no words in the whole vocabulary of abuse sufficiently strong to describe that degree of treachery. THE PRESIDENT: Is that document dated? MAJOR JONES: That document does not bear a date. THE PRESIDENT: We will break off now. [The Tribunal adjourned until 7 December 1945 at 1000 o'clock.] 271
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