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Volume VI · Page 339
| 4. AFFIDAVIT OF PATZIG | |
| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT STEINBRINCK 339 STEINBRINCK DEFENSE EXHIBIT 90 |
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| AFFIDAVIT OF
ADMIRAL CONRAD PATZIG,* 17 JUNE 1947, CONCERNING DEFENDANT STEINBRINCK'S REAPPOINTMENT IN THE NAVY BECAUSE OF STEINBRINCK'S DESIRE TO AVOID WEARING THE SS UNIFORM |
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| I hereby make the following
deposition in lieu of an oath, realizing that I render myself liable to
punishment under the law by falsifying an affidavit. I am aware that this
affidavit, given by me, is to serve as evidence in the case of the United
States against Flick and others, now before the United States Military Tribunal
IV in Nuernberg: In 1940, around the month of May or June, immediately after the French campaign, the retired Lieutenant Commander Otto Steinbrinck approached me in my capacity as Chief of the Navy Personnel Office, with the request to reappoint him in the navy. He gave as the reason that he had been given a position in the administration of the occupied western zone which would involve the wearing of uniform, and, since his old naval uniform meant more to him than the uniform of an SS Leader, he was keen to appear again in the former. As Steinbrinck's commission in these Occupied zones did not come from the navy, it was not easy for me to effect his reappointment in the navy; however, I finally succeeded, and an exception was made. I learned afterward that Steinbrinck had difficulties with the SS for refusing to wear the SS uniform and for his statement to me that he preferred to rejoin the navy. By choosing the naval uniform he had to be satisfied with the rank of lieutenant commander, while as SS Leader he would have been given a higher service rank. Berlin, 17 June 1947 |
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| [Signed] CONRAD PATZIG | |
* Affiant was not called as a witness by either the prosecution or the defense.
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