22 Nov. 45
Afternoon Session
MR. DODD: If Your Honor pleases, if I may go back
for just a very little bit to take up the train of thought where I
left off at the noon recess.
We were discussing the document, bearing the number D-203, and I
had referred particularly to the third page of that document, and
even more particularly to the second paragraph on that page and I
wish to read from a sentence approximately 8 or 10 lines down m that
second paragraph, which reads as follows:
"The question of restoration of
the Wehrmacht will not be decided at Geneva but in Germany, when we
have gained internal strength through internal peace."
I wish to refer again to the same page of the
same document, and to the last paragraph and the last sentence, with
reference to the Defendant Göring, who was present at that same
meeting to which this document refers, the meeting of February 20,
1933 in Berlin. Göring said that the sacrifices asked for surely
would be so much easier for industry to bear if it realized that the
election of March 5th will surely be the last one for the next 10
years probably even for the next 100 years.
In a memorandum dated the 22d day of February
1933, and for the information of the Court, in the document book
bearing the number D-204, Gustav Krupp described this meeting
briefly, and in the memorandum wrote that he had expressed to Hitler
the gratitude of the 25 industrialists present at the meeting on
February 20, 1933.
There are other expressions in that memorandum,
which we do not deem to be particularly pertinent to the allegations
of the Indictment with which we are now concerned. It is also to
establish the corroboration of the affidavit of Puhl that the meeting
was held.
I might point out to the Court that this
memorandum, together with the report of the speech of Hitler, were
found by the British and the United States armies in the personal
files of the Defendant Krupp.
I am aware, if Your Honors please, that the method I am pursuing
here is a little tedious, because I am trying to refer specifically
to the documents, and particularly to the excerpts referred to in my
remarks, and therefore this presentation differs very considerably
from that which has gone before. I trust, however, that you will bear
with me, because this part of the case requires some rather careful
and detailed explanations.
In April of 1933, after Hitler had entrenched himself in power,
Gustav Krupp, as chairman of the Reich Association of German