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Dec. 45
"In
the further developments, I was
supported by Commander Schreiber, Naval
Attaché in Oslo, and the M-Chief
personally — in conjunction with
the Rosenberg organization. Thus we got
in touch with Quisling and Hagelin, who
came to Berlin in the beginning of
December and were taken to the Führer
by me — with the approval of
Reichsleiter Rosenberg . . . ."
I
will later draw the attention of the Tribunal to
the developments in December.
The
details of the manner in which the Defendant
Raeder did make contact personally with Quisling
are not very clear. But I would draw the Court's
attention to the Document C-65, which precedes .
. .
THE PRESIDENT: Would you read the
end of that paragraph?
MAJOR JONES:
With your Lordship's permission, I would like to
revert to that in a later stage in my unfolding
of the evidence.
In the Document C-65,
which will be Exhibit GB-85, we have a report of
Rosenberg to Raeder in which the full extent of
Quisling's preparedness for treachery and his
potential usefulness to the Nazi aggressors was
reported and disclosed to the Defendant Raeder.
Paragraph 1 of that report deals with
matters which I have already dealt with in
reading Rosenberg's statement, 007-PS. But if
the Court will look at the second paragraph of
Exhibit GB-85, C-65, it reads as follows:
"The
reasons for a coup, on which
Quisling made a report, would be
provided by the fact that the Storthing"
— that is to say the Norwegian
parliament — "had, in defiance
of the constitution, passed a resolution
prolonging its own life which is to
become operative on January 12th.
Quisling still retains in his capacity
as a long-standing officer and a former
Minister of War the closest relations
with the Norwegian Army. He showed me
the original of a letter which he had
received only a short time previously
from the commanding officer in Narvik,
Colonel Sunlo. In this letter Colonel
Sunlo frankly lays emphasis on the fact
that if things went on as they were
going at present, Norway was finished."
If
the Court will turn to the next page of that
document, the last two paragraphs, the details
of a treacherous plot to overthrow the
government of his own country, by the traitor
Quisling in collaboration with the Defendant
Rosenberg, will be indicated to the Court.
"A
plan has been put forward which deals
with the possibility of a coup
and which provides for a number of
selected Norwegians to be trained in
Germany with all possible speed