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A. Yes, I had a dual citizenship. I was a person who had dual
citizenship, and from my activities as a consul of course I know that there
were many Swiss living in Germany who had the German citizenship as well as
their Swiss citizenship. The same is true in many other countries of the world.
Q. Mr. Haefliger, from 1934 to 1938 you were Swiss Consul in Frankfurt.
Did you, in 1938, finally sever your connections with the Swiss Consulate and
never again take them up?
A. No. Since my main place of residence was
in Berlin, my connections with Frankfurt became more vague. But at the
beginning of 1945, when it was no longer possible to work any more in Berlin,
since everything was destroyed anyhow, and since we were constantly being
attacked by air, I returned to Frankfurt; and since one could see the end
approach, I put myself at the disposal of the Consulate, and came in contact
with the Swiss Ambassador in Berlin, and I was put on the staff of the Swiss
Consulate in Frankfurt, to be the official adviser of the Consulate.
Q.
Was that revoked officially after the capitulation?
A. No, after the
collapse, when Frankfurt was occupied at the end of March, I became very active
there. The Consulate had to be housed in a little village during the
bombarding. It had to come back to Frankfurt. I had evacuated part of my house
in order to make more room for the office. Then I made inquiries about the
legal situation of the Swiss colony in Frankfurt, and wanted to protect them
against any dislocations by the military.
Q. That is sufficient. Do you
still have German citizenship?
A. No, I don't have German citizenship
any more. I cancelled it after I was released from internment at the end of
1945.
Q. Have you been officially released from your capacity as a
German citizen?
A. Yes.
Q. Who did that?
A. The
competent Regierungspraesident in Wiesbaden did that.
Q. When? A. On 25
January 1946; the Consulate helped me considerably at the time, the
representative of the Consulate.
Q. Then you are a Swiss citizen only,
is that right?
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| Q. Mr. Haefliger, concluding your examination on count one of the
indictment, would you please once more state the so-called subjective state of
affairs; that is to say, your own knowledge of the intentions of the Hitlerite
government to wage an aggressive war. Did you have that knowledge?
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