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Dec. 45
DR.
RUDOLF DIX (Counsel for Defendant Schacht):
Witness, do you know Captain Strünck from
the Abwehr?
LAHOUSEN: I would like you
to tell me something more than the name. The
name alone does not mean anything to me. Give me
a few points that will refresh my memory.
DR.
DIX: He is a lawyer who was a reserve officer
with the Abwehr. I do not know in which
department, but I would say it was in the
department of Pieckenbrock. However, if you do
not know him I will not question you any
further.
LAHOUSEN: If he was with
Pieckenbrock I do not know him. I knew a few. Is
Strünck still alive?
DR. DIX: No,
he is no longer living.
LAHOUSEN: Was
he executed?
DR. DIX: He suffered the
same death as Canaris and Oster. For the
information of the Court, I should like to add
that I asked this question because I named Strünck
as a witness and the Court has admitted him as
such. I wish to take this opportunity — but
if you do not know him I will not continue
questioning you.
LAHOUSEN: When I
asked whether he is still alive, I seemed to
recall that this man, together with others whom
I knew very well, might have been killed, but I
cannot be more definite on this point.
DR.
HEINZ FRITZ (Counsel for Defendant Fritzsche): I
would like to ask the witness a few questions.
Witness, do you know that the
Defendant Fritzsche, when in May 1942 he was
transferred to the 6th Army as a soldier and
there heard for the first time of the existence
of an order for executions, recommended to the
Commander-in-Chief of the 6th Army, Paulus, that
he should have this order suspended within the
jurisdiction of his army and have this decision
made known by leaflets to be dropped over the
Russian front?
THE PRESIDENT: Be
careful only to ask one question at a time. You
have just asked three or four questions at once.
DR. FRITZ: Yes, Sir. Is it known to
you that Fritzsche gave Paulus the advice to
rescind the order for his army sector?
LAHOUSEN:
That order had already been given to his army.
Will you kindly give me the approximate date?
DR. FRITZ: That was during the Russian
campaign, as I mentioned yesterday. Most of
these things occurred in May 1942.
LAHOUSEN:
No. I do not know anything about this in
connection with Fritzsche. In connection with
the name Reichenau, which was mentioned before,
I do remember a conversation between Reichenau
and Canaris at which I was present. It made a
great