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go
down to the one but last paragraph.
"In
the spirit of this treaty the German
Government is willing and prepared also
to cultivate economic-political
relations with Poland in such a way that
here, too, the state of unprofitable
suspicion can be succeeded by a period
of useful co-operation. It is a matter
of particular satisfaction to us that in
this same year the National Socialist
Government of Danzig has been enabled to
effect a similar clarification of its
relations with its Polish neighbor."
That
was in 1934. Three years later, again on the
30th of January, speaking in the Reichstag,
Hitler said — this is Document PS-2368,
which will be GB-26. I will, if I may, avoid so
far as possible repeating passages which the
Attorney General quoted in his speech the other
day. The first paragraph, in fact, he quoted to
the Tribunal. It is a short paragraph but
perhaps I might read it now, but I will —
dealing with this evidence — so far as
possible avoid repetition:
"By
a series of agreements we have
eliminated existing tension and thereby
contributed considerably to an
improvement in the European atmosphere.
I merely recall an agreement with Poland
which has worked out to the advantage of
both sides . . . . True statesmanship
will not overlook realities, but
consider them. The Italian nation and
the new Italian State are realities. The
German nation and the German Reich are
equally realities. And to my own fellow
citizens I would say that the Polish
nation and the Polish State have also
become a reality."
That
was on the 30th of January 1937.
On
the 24th of June 1937 we have a top-secret
order, C-175, which has already been put in as
USA-69. It is a top-secret order issued by the
Reich Minister for War and Commander-in-Chief of
the Armed Forces, signed "Von Blomberg."
It has at the top, "Written by an officer .
. . . Outgoing documents in connection with this
matter and dealing with it . . . . are to be
written by an officer." So it is obviously
highly secret. And with it is enclosed a
directive for the unified preparation for war of
the Armed Forces to come into force on the 1st
of August 1937. The directive enclosed with it
is divided into Part 1, "General Guiding
Principles"; Part 2, "Likely Warlike
Eventualities"; Part 3, "Special
Preparations." The Tribunal will remember
that the Attorney General quoted the opening
passages:
"The
general political position justifies the
supposition that Germany need not
consider an attack from any side."