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| Public Prosecutor of Duesseldorf. I do not
have them here as yet. When I receive them, I shall then submit them in
evidence. Mr. Klemm, briefly in regard to Exhibit 110, which you have already mentioned, "terror fliers," secret military matter, that is how it is called; and a note. Did you find out anything about that? A. These are Wehrmacht files and a correspondence with the Foreign Office, and the problem was to not let terror fliers obtain the status of prisoners of war. Q. Let me interrupt you; you do not have to discuss it. Did you find out about the matter at the time? A. The administration of justice neither took part in this case nor did we know anything about it. Q. The prosecution, furthermore, submitted document 1676-PS, Prosecution Exhibit 417.¹ It is an article which appeared in the Voelkischer Beobachter on 28-29 May 1944. The prosecution asserts that from this article of Goebbels' in the German press, one can read an indictment of the population to administer lynch justice. Did you find out about this article at the time? A. I did not have knowledge of this article at the time. It was not the cause for Thierack's circular letter, which was issued for quite different reasons; as I just described, it was issued for legal considerations. Moreover, according to the affidavit in Document NG-1306, Prosecution Exhibit 440, the issuance of this circular letter must have occurred at a time which shows that it could have had no connection with this article in the newspaper. |
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| Mr. LaFOLLETTE: * * * Now we will consider the matter of the Allied fliers. That document is Exhibit 108 and 109.² NG-364, Prosecution Exhibit 108 was the circular letter from Bormann dated 8 June [30 May] 1944, and Exhibit 109 is Document 635-PS. You testified yesterday — I mean Friday morning — that the notation by Thierack was on Exhibit 108 [Exhibit 109] reading, "IV circular with the addition that such cases are to be submitted to me when they arrive for an examination of the |
¹ Translation of entire document appears in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1946) volume IV, pages 186- 189.
² These documents are reproduced above in this section.
