FIFTEENTH
DAY
Friday, 7
December 1945
Morning
Session
MAJOR JONES: May it
please the Tribunal, yesterday afternoon when the Tribunal adjourned I
was dealing with the stage of the Nazi conspiracy against Norway at
which the activities of the Defendants Raeder and Rosenberg converged.
And the Court will remember that I submitted in evidence Document C-65,
which was a report from the Defendant Rosenberg to Raeder regarding
Quisling and ending with the infamous words, "Quisling gives
figures of the number of German troops required which accord with German
calculations."
The Court has already received in evidence
and has heard read material parts of Document C-66, which was the report
of Raeder to Admiral Assmann which disclosed how, in December of 1939,
the Defendant Raeder did in fact meet Quisling and Hagelin.
I
now invite the Court to look at Document C-64 which, for the purpose of
the record, will be Exhibit GB-86. The Court will observe that that is a
report by Raeder of a meeting of the Naval Staff with Hitler on the 12th
of December 1939, at 1200 hours, in the presence of the Defendants
Keitel and Jodl, and Puttkammer, who at this time was adjutant to
Hitler.
The report is headed "Norwegian Question,"
and the first sentence reads:
"Commander-in-Chief, Navy" — who of course was the
Defendant Raeder — "has received Quisling and Hagelin.
Quisling creates the impression of being reliable."
And
then there follows, in the next two paragraphs, a statement of
Quisling's views, views with which the Court is by now familiar because
of my reading of extracts from the Document 007-PS; but I draw the
Court's attention to the fourth paragraph in Document C-64, beginning:
"The Führer
thought of speaking to Quisling personally so that he might form an
impression of him. He wanted to see Rosenberg once more beforehand, as
the latter has known Quisling for a long while. Commander-in-Chief,
Navy" — that is, of course, Raeder — " suggests
that if the Führer forms a favorable impression, the OKW should
obtain permission to make plans with Quisling for the preparation and
carrying