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were more or less meritorious in this
sector of the great fight of the movement. Because, in the last
analysis, by far the greatest part is to be ascribed only to him; he
alone will be considered by history as the liberator of Austria. I,
therefore, considered it best to accept existing conditions and look
for new fertile fields of endeavor in the Party.
"If I should be asked to describe--without personal
interest-- the role of the Party according to my best conviction, I
am ready to do so at any time. For this reason I promised yesterday
to submit to you again a short summary, and to make it available for
your confidential use. Of this letter and of this abbreviated
description I retain the sole copy.
"Heil Hitler!
Rainer."
Now, of course, all of these enclosures went to the Defendant
Seyss-Inquart, and he had knowledge of the contents of all of them.
It is an historical fact of which the Court will take judicial
notice, that Seyss-Inquart was the original Quisling. It so happened
that the Norwegian Seyss-Inquart gave his name to posterity as a
meaningful name, but all Quislings are alike.
The Tribunal will observe from this that the Rainer report is
hardly likely to be tendentious, as counsel says, or to be prejudiced
in favor of Defendant Seyss-Inquart's contribution to the Anschluss.
It tends, on the contrary, to show that Seyss-Inquart was not quite
so important as he might have thought he was. Even so, Rainer gives
Seyss-Inquart credit enough.
The Rainer report further tells of the disorganization of the
Nazi Party in Austria and of its reconstitution. I now quote the
second and third paragraphs of the report, appearing on Pages 3 and 4
of the English text of 812-PS, which is Exhibit USA-61; and I believe
it is on Pages 1 and 2 of the original German of the report or
Bericht, which is the third part of the document:
"Thus the first stage of battle
commenced which ended with the July rising of 1934. The decision for
the July rising was right, the execution of it was faulty. The result
was a complete destruction of the organization; the loss of entire
groups of fighters through imprisonment or flight into the Alt-Reich,
and with regard to the political relationship of Germany to Austria,
a formal acknowledgment of the existence of the Austrian State by the
German Government. With the telegram to Papen, instructing him to
reinstitute normal relationships between the two States, the
Führer had liquidated the first stage of the battle, and a new
method of political penetration was to begin. By order of the
Führer the Landes-