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for
such a purpose, being allotted their
exact tasks and provided with
experienced and die-hard National
Socialists who are practiced in such
operations. These trained men should
then proceed with all speed to Norway
where details would then require to be
further discussed. Some important
centers in Oslo would have to be taken
over forthwith, and at the same time,
the German Fleet together with suitable
contingents of the German Army would go
into operation when summoned specially
by the new Norwegian Government in a
specified bay at the approaches to Oslo.
Quisling has no doubts that such a coup,
having been carried out with
instantaneous success, would immediately
bring him the approval of those sections
of the army with which he at present has
connections; and thus it goes without
saying that he has never discussed a
political fight with them. As far as the
King is concerned, he believes that he
would respect it as an accomplished
fact."
How
wrong Quisling was in that anticipation was
shown, of course, by subsequent developments.
The last sentence reads:
"Quisling
gives figures of the number of German
troops required which accord with German
calculations."
The
Tribunal may think that there are no words in
the whole vocabulary of abuse sufficiently
strong to describe that degree of treachery.
THE PRESIDENT: Is that document dated?
MAJOR JONES: That document does not
bear a date.
THE PRESIDENT: We will
break off now.
[The
Tribunal adjourned until 7 December 1945 at 1000
o'clock.]