the Chief of Staff is not the one who has the duty to advise his superiors but the legal clerk of the army, as I have already shown by the "Handbook [ ... ]
If, however, the High Commander decided for himself that he considered himself bound to commands issued by the High Command of the Wehrmacht, this d [ ... ]
of the allegedly criminal commands. The reason for carrying out the orders was exclusively the decision of the Commander in chief who carried out t [ ... ]
part of the events, which are the most important subjects of the indictment happened. I refer in this connection to the following documents and rec [ ... ]
If Foertsch had been the deputy of his sick Commander-in-Chief, or at least had actually exercised his power of command, he would not have felt the [ ... ]
General Foertsch that the additional assertion of the prosecutor in his opening statement: "We see the German army in its shameful role as the serv [ ... ]
prosecution as a rebuttal in the session of 16 January 1948. The prosecutor obviously tried, at this somewhat late occasion, to find out that Foert [ ... ]
That Foertsch did not enthusiastically or of his own free will agree with the measures of the supreme leadership, but regarded them with views rangi [ ... ]
by the prosecution. In this connection I refer to the following evidence submitted for the defense of General Foertsch: I shall continue on page 6 [ ... ]
To 3) However, General Foertsch did not rest satisfied with stating his dissatisfaction to the Supreme Command nor with making constructive proposa [ ... ]