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Volume VI · Page 217
| H. Testimony of Defendant Flick |
| EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
THE DEFENDANT FLICK¹ |
| PRESIDING JUDGE SEARS: Dr. Dix, you may call
the witness. (The defendant Friedrich Flick came to the witness box.) Witness, raise your right hand. Do you swear by God, the Almighty and Omniscient, that you will speak the pure truth and will withhold and add nothing: Do you so swear? DEFENDANT FLICK: I so swear. PRESIDING JUDGE SEARS: You may be seated. DR. Dix (counsel for defendant Flick) : May it please the Tribunal. In this examination I must ask you to be patient. In order to shorten the proceedings, I will not ask any questions concerning the birth and education of Flick, I will leave these facts as contained in the documents submitted by the prosecution. The contents of these documents generally are correct and there is no need for an oral commentary on these contents, but I shall have to sketch for you in broad outlines a history of Flick's development beginning with his entrance into the Charlottenhuette firm, which was in the year 1913. From my first question you will realize why this question is a barrier, directly and indirectly, and also evidence for the criminal acts themselves. It will, of course, take considerable time to go through the thorny path of these documents, especially in the Petschek case, in which we have to make our own way without suffering injury from the thorns. This will take some time, and I hope that the detail with which we will pursue this interrogation will be considered in that light. |
| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
| DR. DIX: Defendant Flick, you heard what I
said just now, and I should like to ask you when I have finished my question to
wait a few moments so that the interpreter can follow, until he has finished
the translation of my question. Otherwise he will have to translate the
question while you already begin with your answer, which makes it very
difficult for the Tribunal and the interpreter to understand. You have already heard that I told the Tribunal that we shall base your Curriculum Vitae (NI-3020, Pros. Ex. 5)² up to your entrance into the Charlottenhuette, on documents submitted by the prosecution and I would like to ask you to give us broad out- […lines] |
¹ Complete testimony is recorded in Mimeographed transcript, 2, 3, 7-11, 14-17 July 1947, transcript pages 3150-3915, 10829. Further extracts from the testimony of the defendant Flick are reproduced below in sections V G, V1 D, VII E, end VIII D.
² Reproduced earlier in section B.
