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		7 Dec. 45 out of the occupation: (a) By peaceful means — that is to say, German forces summoned by Norway; (b) to agree to do so by force." That was the 12th of December, the meeting at which Raeder made this report to Hitler. If the Court will now look at Document C-66, which is Raeder's record of these transactions for the purpose of history, the Court will observe, in the last sentence of the second paragraph of the section of C-66 headed "(b) Weserübung," these words: ". . . thus we got in touch with Quisling and Hagelin, who came to Berlin at the beginning of December, and were taken to the Führer by me with the approval of Reichsleiter Rosenberg." And then the Court will observe a note at the end of the page: "At the crucial moment R" — presumably Rosenberg — "hurt his foot, so that I visited him in his house on the morning of the 14th December." That is, of course, Raeder's note; and it indicates the extent of his contact in this conspiracy. The report continues: "On the grounds of the Führer's discussion with Quisling and Hagelin on the afternoon of the 14th of December 1939, the Führer gave the order that preparations for the Norwegian operation were to be made by the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces. "Until that moment the naval operations staff had taken no part in the development of the Norwegian question and continued to be somewhat skeptical about it. The preparations which were undertaken by Captain Krancke in the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces were founded, however, on a memorandum of the naval war staff." The Court may well think that the note of the Defendant Raeder referring to the crucial moment was an appropriate one because the Court will see that on that day, the 14th of December, Hitler gave the order that preparations for the Norwegian operation were to be begun by the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces. If the Court will now turn to Document 007-PS, which is further on in the document book and which the Court will remember is Rosenberg's report on the activities of his organization — it is after the "D" documents — if the Court will turn to about 10 lines from the bottom of the first page of Annex I dealing with Norway, the Court will see that there were further meetings between Quisling and the Nazi chiefs in December; and I am going to read now the section beginning: 273
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