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U-boat
Fleet; Operations Division," and is marked "most
secret." The subject is "Base in
Norway."
Then there are set out "suppositions,"
"advantages and disadvantages," and,
over one page, "conclusions". I am
proposing to read the last paragraph, III:
"The
following is therefore proposed: "
(1)
Establishment of a base in Trondheim,
including:
"a)
Possibility of supplying fuel,
compressed air, oxygen, provisions;
"b) Repair opportunities
for normal overhaul work after an
encounter;
"c) Good
opportunities for accommodating U-boat
crews;
"d) Flak
protection, L.A. antiaircraft armament,
patrol and M/S units.
"(2)
Establishment of the possibility of
supplying fuel in Narvik as an
alternative."
That
is a Dönitz memorandum.
Now, as
the Tribunal saw in the report of Raeder to
Assmann, in October 1939, Hitler was merely
considering the Norwegian aggression and had not
yet committed himself to it, although, as the
Tribunal will see very shortly, Hitler was most
susceptible to any suggestions of aggression
against the territory of another country.
The
documents will show that the Defendant Raeder
persevered in pressing his point of view with
regard to Norway, and at this stage he found a
powerful ally in the Defendant Rosenberg.
The
Nazi employment of traitors and the stimulation
of treachery as a political weapon are now
unhappily proven historical facts, but should
proof be required of that statement it is found
in the remarkable document which I now invite
the Court to consider. I refer to Document
007-PS, which is after the TC and D series in
the document book. That will be Exhibit GB-84.
That is headed on Page 1, "Brief
Report on Activities of the Foreign Affairs
Bureau of the Party" —
Aussenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP — "from
1933 to 1943." It reads:
"When
the Foreign Affairs Bureau" —
Aussenpolitisches Amt — was
established on the lst of April 1933,
the Führer directed that it should
not be expanded to a large bureaucratic
agency; but should rather develop its
effectiveness through initiative and
suggestions.
"Corresponding
to the extraordinarily hostile attitude
adopted by the Soviet Government in
Moscow from the beginning, the
newly-established bureau devoted
particular attention to