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believe, therefore, that the so-called protocol and the
English text do not actually give the contents of what Defendant Speer
tried to express during the interrogation. It would, therefore, not
further the establishment of the truth should this protocol ever be
used.
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Dodd, when was the German translation given to
counsel for the defendant?
MR. DODD: About 4 days ago, Your Honor.
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Dodd, is there any certification by the interrogator
as to the English translation?
MR. DODD: There is, Your Honor. There is a certification at the end of
the interrogation by the interrogator and by the interpreter and by the
reporter as well. There are three certifications.
THE PRESIDENT: I think the best course will be, in these circumstances,
to receive the interrogation now. You will have an opportunity, by
calling the defendant, to show in what way he alleges, or you allege,
that the interrogation is inaccurately translated.
DR. FLÄCHSNER: Thank you, Sir.
MR. DODD: May I respectfully refer, Your Honor, to the last document in
the document book, 4 pages from the end?
THE PRESIDENT: Which page do you refer to?
MR. DODD: I refer to the. page bearing the Number 16 of the English
text of the transcript of the interrogation and Page 21 of the German
text. The answer quoted is:
"The fact was that we were anxious to
use workers from concentration camps in factories and to establish
small concentration camps near factories, in order to use the manpower
that was then available there. But it did not come up only in
connection with this trip. . . . "
That is, Speer's trip to Austria. (Exhibit USA-220)
THE PRESIDENT: I think I ought to say to defendant's counsel that if he
had waited until he heard that piece of evidence read, he would have
seen that it was quite unnecessary to make any objection.
MR. DODD: Defendant Göring endorsed this use of concentration camp
labor and asked for more. We refer to our Document 1584-PS, Part 1,
which is Exhibit Number USA-221. This document is a teletype message
from Göring to Himmler, dated 14th of February 1944. 1 quote from
the document beginning with the second sentence:
"At the same time, I ask you to put
at my disposal as great a number of KZ " —
concentration-camp — " convicts as possible