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"He
then talked about the Bündnis (alliance) into which his party and
the Deutschnationale Volkspartei had entered. This latter party, in
the meantime, had been reorganized by Herr Von Papen. At the end he
came to the point which seemed to me the purpose of the meeting.
Hitler stressed the importance that the two aforementioned parties
should gain the majority in the coming Reichstag election. Krupp von
Bohlen thanked Hitler for his speech. After Hitler had left the room,
Dr. Schacht proposed to the meeting the raising of an election fund
of, as far as I remember, RM 3 million. The fund should be distributed
between the two 'allies' Volkspartei should be included..."
THE PRESIDENT [Interposing]: Mr. Dodd, it seems to
me that really all that that document shows is that there was a
meeting at which Mr. Schacht was present, and at which it was
determined to subscribe an election fund in 1933.
MR. DODD: That is quite so, Your Honor. I will not
labor the Court by reading all of it. There were some other
references, but not of major importance, in the last paragraph, to a
division of the election fund. I just call Your Honors' attention to
it in passing. I should like, at this point, to call Your Honors'
attention to the document bearing the Number D-203. It is three-page
document: D-203.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
MR. DODD: I wish to read only excerpts from it very
briefly. It is the speech delivered to the industrialists by Hitler,
and I refer particularly to the second paragraph of that document: "Private
enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy..."
THE PRESIDENT [Interposing]: What is the date of
that?
MR. DODD: It is the speech made at the meeting on
the 20th of February 1933 at Berlin.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. MR. DODD: "Private
enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy; it is
conceivable only if the people have a sound idea of authority and
personality."
I refer to Page 2 of the document, and I should
like to read an excerpt from that first paragraph on Page 2, about 13
sentences down, beginning with the words:
"I recognized even while in the
hospital that one had to search for new ideas conducive to
reconstruction. I found them in
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