28 Nov. 45
smith executed on 30 August 1945 at Mexico City. This has been
made available to the defendants in German, as well as in English.
This is a different affidavit from Document Number 1760-PS which
was executed August 28. This second affidavit, which I offer as
Exhibit USA-68, consists of a presentation of the diplomatic portion
of the program of the Nazi Party. To a considerable extent it merely
states facts of common knowledge, facts that many people who are
generally well informed already know. It also gives us facts which
are common knowledge in the circle of diplomats or of students of
foreign affairs. It consists of some 11 mimeographed pages,
single-spaced. I read first from the third paragraph in the
affidavit:
"As early as 1933, while I served in
Germany, the German and Nazi contacts which I had in the highest and
secondary categories openly acknowledged Germany's ambitions to
dominate southeastern Europe from Czechoslovakia down to Turkey. As
they freely stated, the objective was territorial expansion in the
case of Austria and Czechoslovakia. The professed objectives in the
earlier stages of the Nazi regime, in the remainder of southeastern
Europe, were political and economic control and they did not, at that
time, speak so definitely of actual absorption and destruction of
sovereignty. Their ambitions, however, were not limited to
southeastern Europe. From the very beginnings of 1933, and even
before the Nazis came into power, important Nazis speaking of the
Ukraine freely said that 'it must be our granary' and that 'even with
southeastern Europe under our control, Germany needs and must have
the greater part of the Ukraine in order to be able to feed the
people of greater Germany.' After I left Germany in the middle of
1934 for my post in Austria, I continued to receive information as to
the German designs in southeastern Europe. In a conversation with Von
Papen shortly after his appointment as German Minister to Austria in
1934, Von Papen frankly stated to me that 'southeastern Europe to
Turkey is Germany's hinterland and I have been designated to carry
through the task of bringing it within the fold. Austria is first on
the program.'
"As I learned through my diplomatic colleagues, Von Papen in
Vienna and his colleague Von Mackensen in Budapest were openly
propagating the idea of the dismemberment and final absorption of
Czechoslovakia as early as 1935."
Then, skipping a short paragraph, I resume:
"Immediately after the Nazis came
into power, they started a vast rearmament program. This was one of
the primary