showing the extent to which the spoliation of Soviet territory and resources, and the barbarous treatment inflicted on Soviet citizens, were the result of plans long made and carefully drawn up by the Nazis before they launched their aggressive war on the Soviet Union. The Nazis planned to destroy the industrial potential of the Northern regions occupied by their armies and so to administer the production of food in the South and Southeast, which normally produced a surplus of food, that the population of the Northern region would inevitably be reduced to starvation because of diversion of such surplus food to the German Reich. It has been shown also that the Nazis planned to incorporate Galicia and all of the Baltic countries into Germany and to convert the Crimea, an area North of the Crimea, the Volga territory, and the district around Baku into German colonies. Soviet Union, it appearsthat Hitler had entrusted the Defendant Goering with the over-all direction of the economic administration in the area of operations and in the areas under political administration. It further appears that Goering had set up an economic staff and subsidiary authorities to carry out this function. its various sections appear more clearly in a set of directives "for the operation of the economy in the newly occupied territories" issued by Goering, as Reichsmarshal of the Greater German Reich, in June 1941. These directives are contained in the important "Green Portfolio" which curiously enough, was printed by the Wehrmacht. By the terms of these directives, it is stated that "The orders of the Reich Marshal cover all economic fields, including nutrition and agriculture. They are to be executed by the subordinate economic offices."
An "Economic Staff, East" was charged with the execution of orders transmitted to it from higher authority. One sub-division of this staff, the Agricultural Section, was charged with the following functions: 'Nutrition and agriculture, the economy of all agricultural products, provision of supplies for the Army in cooperation with the Army groups concerned."
Excerpts from the "Green Portfolio" have already been admitted as USA Exhibit 315, EC-472, but I will offer at this time some additional excerpts in support of the facts I have just related. I would like to offer as USA Exhibit 587, our Document 1743-PS. This is another copy of the "Green Portfolio", and I want to offer this portfolio to show to the Tribunal that these directives were originally published in June, 1941. Document EC-472, which is already in evidence as USA Exhibit 315, was a revised edition published in July, 1941. In other words, the economic plan for the invasion was ready when the Wehrmacht actually marched into the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. the economic organization set up by the Defendant Goering, the Agricultural Section of the "Economic Staff East", which rendered a top secret report on 23 May 1941, containing a set of policy directives for the exploitation of Soviet agriculture. It will be recalled that these directives contemplated abandonment of all industry in the food deficit regions, with certain exceptions, and the diversion of food from the food surplus regions to German needs, even though millions of people would inevitably die of starvation as a result. Those directives have already been read into evidence at page 1558.
Minutes of a meeting at Hitler's Headquarters on 16 July 1941, kept by the Defendant Bormann, have also been read in part in evidence. It was at this meeting that Hitler stated that the Nazis never intended to leave the countries then being occupied by their armies, that although the rest of the world was to be deceived on this point, nevertheless, "this need not prevent us taking all necessary measures - shooting, desettling, etc., - and we shall take them." That quotation, may it please the Tribunal, was taken from your Exhibit USA 317, our Document L-221. Then Hitler discussed making the Crimea and other parts of the Soviet Union into German colonies. The Defendant Goering was present and participated in this conference.
September, 1941, which is our Exhibit 318, that Goering presided over a meeting of German military officials concerned with the better exploitation of the occupied territories for the German food economy. In discussing this topic, the defendant Goering said:
"In the occupied territories on principle only those people are to be supplied with an adequate amount of food who work for us. Even if one wanted to feed all the other inhabitants, one could not do it in the newly occupied Eastern areas. It is, therefore, wrong to funnel off food supplies for this purpose, if it is done at the expense of the Army and necessitates increased supplies from home." Goering in the Nazi plans for committing wholesale war crimes in occupied territories is, we submit, clear.
I turn now to Goering's planning and his participation in inhumane acts committed against civilian populations before and during the war. It has been shown that shortly after becoming Prime Minister of Prussia in 1933, Goering created the Gestapo in Prussia, which became a model for that instrument of terror as it was extended to the rest of Germany. Concentration camps were established in Prussia in the spring of 1933 under his administration, and these camps were then placed in charge of the Gestapo, of which he was chief. employed these institutions as agencies for the commission of their crimes already appears from the evidence. In 1936 Himmler became chief of the German police. Thereafter, Goering was able to devote his attention chiefly to the task of creating the German Air Force and to the task of preparing the nation economically for aggressive war. However, he continued to be concerned with these institutions of his creation. An example of this is shown in cur document 1584-PS-I, already introduced as USA Exhibit 221, which is a teletype sent by Goering to Himmler in which he requested the latter to place at his disposal as great a number of concentration camp inmates as possible, as the situation of air warfare made the subterranean transfer of industry necessary.
on the employment of prisoners in the aviation industry showed that 36,000 were being employed for the purposes of the Air Forces and that an increase to a total of 90,000 prisoners was being contemplated. on human beings at the concentration camp at Dachau, and the part that Field Marshal Milch, State Secretary and Deputy to the defendant Goering as Air Minister, for whose acts the latter must bear full responsibility, is abundantly clear from letters written by Milch to General Wolff on 20 May 1942 and to Himmler in August, 1942, both of which have been read in evidence at page 1850 of the record, our document 343-PS.
Finally, I turn to Goering's participation and planning for the elimination of all members of the Jewish race from the economic life of Germany and in the planned extermination of all Jews from the continent of Europe. a speech, urging that body to pass the infamous Nurnberg race laws. I offer as USA Exhibit 588 our document 3458-PS, which is an excerpt from Ruhle, Das Dritte Reich, page 257. Goering said:
"God has created the races. He did not want equality and therefore we energetically reject any attempt to falsify the concept of race purity by making it equivalent with racial equality. We have experienced what it means when a people has to live in accordance with the laws of an equality that are alien to its kind and contrary to nature. For this equality does not exist. We have never acknowledged such an idea and therefore must reject it also, as a matter of principle, in our laws, and we must acknowledge that purity of race which Nature and Providence have destined." in a speech in Vienna, I offer as USA Exhibit 437 our document 3460-PS, starting with pages 348. Goering said:
"I must address myself with a serious word to the city of Vienna. The city of Vienna can no longer rightfully be called a German city. So many Jews live in this city. Where there are 300,000 Jews, you cannot speak of a German city.
"Vienna must once more become a German city, because it must perform important tasks for Germany in Germany's Ostmark. These tasks lie in the sphere of culture as well as in the sphere of economics. In neither of them can we, in the long run, put up with the Jew.
"This, however, should not be attempted by inappropriate interference and stupid measures but must be done systematically and carefully. As Delegate for the Four-Year Plan, I commission the Reichsstatthalter in Austria jointly with the Plenipotentiary of the Reich, to consider and take any steps, necessary for the redirection of Jewish commerce, i.e. for the Aryanization of business and economic life, and to execute this process in accordance with our laws, legally but inexorably." war, the Nazi conspirators then began the complete elimination of Jews from the economic life preparatory to their physical annihilation. The defendant Goering, as head of the Four Year Plan, was in active charge of this phase of the persecution. requiring registration of all Jewish property. Both Goering and the Defendant Frick signed that law. It is already in evidence.
I beg the Tribunal's pardon. I would like the Tribunal to take judicial notice of that decree, which is cur document 1406-PS and cited as 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 414. were fully prepared to take the next step. The killing of von Rath, a German Legation Secretary in Paris on 9 November 1938, was made the pretext for widespread "spontaneous" riots, which included the looting and burning of many Jewish synagogues, homes and shops, all carefully organized and supervised by the Nazi conspirators. The defendant Goering was fully informed of the measurer taken. The teletype orders of 10 November 1938 given by Heydrich, are already in evidence and were read at Page 1405 of the record.
A letter which Heydrich wrote to Goering on the following day has also been read. It is our document 3058-PS, USA Exhibit 503. In it Himmler summarizes the so-called "spontaneous" riots that had taken place. He reported the day after the riot that, insofar as the official reports from the district police were concerned, he was able to state that 815 shops were destroyed; 171 dwelling houses set on fire or destroyed, and that all this indicates only a fraction of the actual damage caused, as far as arson is concerned. He also said that, "Due to the urgency of the reporting, the reports received to date are entirely limited to general statements, such as 'numerous' or 'most shops destroyed'." Therefore, said Mr. Heydrich, "The figures given must have been exceeded considerably."
"191 synagogues were set on fire, and another 76 completely destroyed. In addition 11 parish halls, cemetery chapels and similar buildings were set on fire and 3 more completely destroyed.
"20,000 Jews were arrested," Thirty-six deaths were reported, and those seriously injured were also numbered at 36. Immediately after these so-called "spontaneous" riots of 9 November, Goering acted as chairman of a meeting at the Reich Ministry of Air devoted to the Jewish question, which also was attended by the defendant Funk and other conspirators. The stenographic report on that meeting is an extraordinary document, and it does not make pretty reading. It is our document 1816-PS. I should like to read certain passages that have not as yet been read into the record, I read from the top of the first page; of the German original, the first two paragraphs of Page I Goering speaks:
"Gentlemen, today's meeting is of a decisive nature. I have received a letter written on the Fuehrer's orders by the Stabsleiter of the Fuehrer's deputy Borman, requesting that the Jewish question be now, once and for all, coordinated and solved one way or another. And yesterday once again did the Fuehrer request by phone for me to take coordinated action in the matter.
"Since the problem is mainly an economic one, it is from the economic and that it shall have to be tackled. Naturally, a number of legal measures shall have to be taken which fall into the sphere of the Minister for Justice and into that of the Minister of the Interior; and certain propaganda measures shall he taken care of by the office of the Minister for Propaganda.
The Minister for Finance and the Minister for Economic Affairs shall take care of problems falling into their respective resorts." discussed. A representative of German insurance companies was called in to assist in the solving of the difficulties created by the fact that most of the Jewish stores and other property destroyed in the rioting were in fact insured. In some cases, they were ultimately insured by foreign insurance companies. All present were agreed that it would be unfortunate to pass a law which would have the effect of allowing foreign insurance companies to escape liability. The defendant Goering then suggested a characteristic solution, and I pass to Page 10. In German it is the third full paragraph on Page 311. Goering said "No, I don't even team of refunding the insurance companies the money.
The companies are liable. No, the money belongs to the State, That's quite clear. That would indeed be a present for the insurance companies. You make a wonderful Petidum there. You'll fulfill your obligations; you may count or that." phases of persecution of the Jews that took place at this meeting. It is sufficient to point out that on the same day the defendant Goering, over his own signature, promulgated three decrees putting into effect the most important matters decided at this meeting. In the first of these decrees, a collective fine of one billion Reichsmarks was placed on all German Jews. I ask the Tribunal to take judicial notice of that decree, which is our document 1412-PS and appears in 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, Page 1579.
The second decree entitled "A Decree on Elimination of Jews from German Economic Life," barred Jews from trades and crafts. I ask the Tribunal to notice judicially that decree, which is our document 2875-PS, cited in 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, Page 1580.
The third decree entitled "Decree for the Restoration of the Appearance of the Streets of Jewish Economic Enterprises," took care of the insurance question raised in the morning's meeting by providing that insurance due to the Jews for various losses sustained by them was to be collected by the State.
I ask the Court to notice judicially that decree also. It is our document 2694-PS and appears in 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, Page 1581.
THE PRESIDENT: Shall we break off for ten minutes there?
(A recess was taken from 1520-1530 hours.)
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Albrecht, the Tribunal thinks that these methods, which are methods really which we have already had under consideration, might be presented in a more summary way than you have given them, and if you can possibly shorten the matters with which you are dealing now by summarizing more than you are, it will be more useful to the Tribunal, and will save time.
MR. ALBRECHT: My Lord, I think I am practically through with this point with which I am dealing, and I think I shall not have to take more than five or ten minutes.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well, but I may say that the same observation will apply to those who follow.
MR. ALBRECHT: May it please the Tribunal, the material I alluded to before the recess, we feel, is merely illustrative of the energetic manner in which Goering took part in driving the Jews from economic life at this period. Two other documents are pertinent on this point.
I would like to offer our document 069-PS as USA Exhibit No. 589, which is a circular letter dated 17 January, 1939, signed by the defendant Bormann, distributing a directive of the defendant Goering with respect to the housing of the Jews. I will be content with the summarization, if the Court please, and I don't intend to read further from that document. I offer as USA Exhibit No. 590. That is an order of the defendant Goering as Commissioner for the Four-year Plan, dated 10 December 1938, prescribing the manner in which exploitation of Jewish property is to be undertaken, and warning that any profit resulting from the elimination of Jews from economic activity, is to go to the Reich. except that I do wish to call the attention of the Tribunal to the fact that the Goering letter is addressed to all the chief agencies of the Reich, to all the political leaders, and leaders of the affiliated organizations of the Party; to all Gauleiters, to all Reichsstatthalters, or governors, and to the various local heads of the German lands and subdivisions thereof.
As the German Armies moved into other countries, the anti-Jewish laws were extended, often in a more stringent form, to the occupied territories.
Many of the decrees were not signed by the defendant Goering himself, but were issued on the basis of decrees signed by him. or as Chairman of the Ministerial Council for National Defense, the defendant Goering himself signed a number of anti-Jewish decrees for occupied territories, including the decrees enumerated on pages 47 and 48 of our brief, of which I ask the Tribunal to take judicial notice. for the complete physical annihilation of all Jews in Europe achieved its full fury. While the execution of this anti-Jewish program was for the most part handled by the SS and the Security Police, the defendant Goering remains implicated to the last in the final efforts to achieve a Nazi "solution" of the Jewish problem. is the final document to which I wish to draw the Tribunal's attention. It is a fitting climax to our presentation on this defendant to Your Honor. The reason why it was addressed to the notorious Heydrich, the predecessor of the defendant Kaltenbrunner, need not strain our Imagination. This document is our document No. 710-PS, which has already been admitted as USA Exhibit No. 509, in connection with the case on the Gestapo. While it has already been read into evidence with, permission of the Court, I would like to close my presentation with the reading of that letter: Goering writes to Heydrich "Complementing the task that was assigned to you on 24 January desired solution of the Jewish question."
of the defendant Goering has been intended to be merely illustrative of the mass of documentary evidence which reveals the leading part played by this conspirator in every phase of the Nazi conspiracy. Thus, we submit that the case against Goering is complete, and that his responsibility for the crimes with which he has been charged under Count One of the Indictment has been established. responsibility of the defendant Goering. We will now proceed with the arrangement had with the British Delegation on the presentation showing the individual responsibility of the defendant von Ribbentrop by Sir David MaxwellFyfe.
SIR DAVID Maxwell FYFE: May it please the Tribunal, if the Tribunal would be good enough to look at Appendix A of the Indictment on page 28 of the English Text, they will find the particulars relating to the defendant - this defendant, and they will find that the Allegations regarding him fall into three divisions. Indictment goes on to say that the defendant Ribbentrop used the foregoing positions, his personal influence, and his intimate connection with the Fuehrer in such a manner that he promoted the accession to power of the Nazi conspirators as setforth in Count One of the Indictment, or permitted preparation for war setforth in Count One of the Indictment. and preparation of the Nazi conspirators for war of aggression and wars in vidation of International treaties, agreements and assurances as set forth in Count One and Count Two of the Indictment.
In accordance with the Fuehrer's principle, he executed and assumed responsibility for the execution of the foreign policy plans of the Nazi conspirators, as setforth in Count One of the Indictment. war crimes, as setforth in Count three of the Indictment and crimes against humanity, setforth in Count Four of the Indictment. Including, moreover, the crimes against persons and property in occupied territories; I hope it might be useful to the Tribunal if I follow that order. In these Allegations in the Indictment we collected the evidence for them in each of these in turn, and I, therefore, proceed to put in first of the Allegation that this defendant promoted the accession to power with the Nazi conspirators.
and these are useful collectively in his own certified statement, which has already been put in as USA Exhibit No. 5, document No. 2829-PS. And I think it would be convenient if I very briefly explained the different activities and offices of the defendant, which are dealt with in that list. It will be seen from that list that he became a member of the Nazi Party in 1932, but according to the semi-official statement in the Archives, he had gone to work for that Party before that time. That semi-official statement goes on and says that he succeeded in extending his business connections to political circles, having joined in 1930 the service of the Party at the time of the final struggle for power in the Reich, Ribbentrop played an important, if not strikingly obvious, part in the bringing about of the decisive meetings between the representatives of the President of the Reich and the heads of the Party, who had prepared the entry of Nazis into power on 30 January 1933. Those meetings, as well as those between Hitler and von Papen, took place in Ribbentrop's house in Berlin Dahlen. Nazi securing the power and after that. For that first period he was advisor to the Party on questions of foreign affairs. His title was first, "Collaborator to the Fuehrer on matters of Foreign Policy," and he later became representative in matters of foreign policies of the Staff of the Deputy. This was followed by membership on the Nazi Reichstag in November 1933, and in the Party organizations he became an Oberfuehrer in the SS, and was subsequently promoted to SS Gruppenfuehrer in 1938, and to Obergruppenfuehrer. Thereafter he obtained the official governmental positions. in matters of Disarmament. It was after Germany had left the disarmament conference. In this capacity he visited London, foreign capitals. He was then given a more important, and certainly, a more designing title, the German Minister Plenipotentiary at Large, and it was in that capacity that he negotiated the Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 1935. zone, which had been demilitarized in accordance with the terms of the Versailles and Locarno Treaties, and the matter was brought before the Council of the League of Nations, and the defendant addressed the Council in defense of the action of Germany, his next position began on 11 August 1936, when he was appointed Ambassador in London.
He occupied that position for a period of some eighteen months, and his activities there while holding that position are not highly relevant to the matters now before the Tribunal, but in joining that period, in his capacity which he still had as German Minister Plenipotentiary at Large, he signed the original Anticomintern Pact with Japan in November 1936, and also the additional pact by which Italy jointed it in 1937. 1938, this defendant was appointed Foreign Minister in place of the defendant von Neurath, and simultaneously was made a member of the Secret Cabinet Council (Geheimer Kabinsttsrat) established by decree of Hitler of that date. That takes us up to the period of his holding the office of Foreign Minister, and his action in that capacity will be dealt with in detail later on. summarized it, to the extract in Das Archiv, which is document D472, which I now put in as Exhibit GB 130; also to the membership extract of the SS, which consist in the examination of the descent of SS leaders, that is inserted as Exhibit GB 131. Again I shall not trouble the Tribunal with the details which shows his rank, which I have already mentioned. There is no question of any honorable rank. It stated the rank of Gruppenfuehrer, and, of course, it gives his ancestry in detail in order to deal with the law relating to that subject. It also deals with the adoption of the "von", to securing the prefix of "von", but the defendant's evidence is now to deal with much more serious thirds than merely controversies with the government. in this part of the case, which is Exhibit GB 129, document 1337-PS, which shows the establishment of the Secret Cabinet Council, and membership in the Foreign Ministry, These are the activities of this defendant in the earlier part of his career, and in submission of the prosecution they show quite clearly that he assisted willing, deliberately, intently, and keenly in the militarily bringing of the Nazis into power, and into the earlier stage of their obtaining control of the German State.
dant participated in political planning and preparation with the Nazi conspirators for wars of aggression and wars in violation of International Treaties, agreements and assurances, and again it might help the Tribunal if I took this up shortly in order of aggression, and stated briefly the constituent allegation in reference to the matters before the Tribunal, only referring the Tribunal to any new document which I shall now present. remember that the defendant Ribbentrop was present at a meeting at Berchtesgaden on 12 February 1938, at which Hitler and von Papen met the Austrian Chancellor von Schuschnigg and his foreign minister Schmidt, Guido Schmidt. The Tribunal will find the official account on that interview in document 2461-PS, and which I put in as Exhibit GB 132, and the Tribunal will find of what I speak is truthful account of the interview in Exhibit USA 72, document number 1780-PS, which is the diary of the defendant Jodl, and the relevant entries are those for the 11 and 12 February 1938. They are extremely short, and I shall ask if the Tribunal will be kind enough to allow me to have it shown quite clearly his case for the prosecution, with his entries, that was put in on Chancellor Schuschnigg's interview, at the foot of the first page in that document of the book, document 1780-PS is the number.
And the 11th of February the defendant Jodl writes: "In the evening, and on 12 February, General Keitel with General von Reichenau and Sperrle at Obersalzburg. Schuschnigg, together with R.G. Schmidt, are again being put under the heaviest political and military pressure. At 2300 hours Schuschnigg signs, protocol.
"13 February; in the afternoon, General Keitel asks Admiral Canaris and myself to come to his apartment. He tells us that the Fuehrer's order is to the effect that military pressure by shamming military action should be kept up until the 15th. Proposals for these deceptive maneuvers are drafted and submitted to the Fuehrer by telephone for approval.
"At 2.40 o'clock the agreement of the Fuehrer arrived. Canaris went to Munich, to the Counter-intelligence Office VII initiated the different measures.
"The effect is quick and strong. In Austria the impression is created that Germany is undertaking serious military preparations." Jodl, to look at the pale words of the official statement which I've also put in. That is the view of the meeting with Schuschnigg, which the prosecution placed before this court. trial brief that this defendant visited Mussolini before the Anschluss as is stated by a member of his staff. At that time it was mistaken by another member. Therefore, I'd rather the Tribunal ruled it out. which took place between the defendant Goering and the defendant Ribbentrop on the 13th of March 1938, when this defendant was still in London. Mr. Alderman. It was passing on what the prosecution submits as a completely false statement that there was no ultimatum. The facts of the ultimatum were explained by the earlier telephone conversations between the defendant Goering in Vienna. Defendant Goering then passed that on to the defendant Ribbentrop in London in order that he might propagate the story of there being no ultimatum in political circles in London. That appears in the telephone conversation which is US Exhibit 76, Document 2949-B , and I say it's fully dealt with in the transcript on page 582.
Although he had been appointed Foreign Minister in February, he had gone back to London to clear up his business at the embassy, and he was still in London until after the Anschluss had actually occurred, but his name appears as a signatory of the law-making Austria, a province of the German Reich. That is Document 2307-PS, which I now put in as Exhibit GB-133, And there is a reference in the Reichsgesetzblatt, which is given. These were the actions of the defendant with regard to Austria. of aggressive work in its various ways. Again I simply remind the Tribunal of the outstanding points with the greatest brevity. First, there is the question of stirring up trouble inside the country against which aggression is going to be set forth. Sudeten Germany under Henlein and the contacts between the foreign office and Henlein are in US Exhibit 93, 94, 95, and 96. These are documents 3060-PS, 2789-PS, and 3059-PS. They have all been read by my friend, Mr. Alderman, but I simply give the Tribunal the effect of them, which is in their documents: Stirring up the Sudeten-German movement in order to act with the Government of the Reich. at the conference of Hitler, at which the latter gave the necessary instructions to prepare the attack on Czechoslovakia, That was dealt with previously on page 742 of the transcript. And I want to put before the Tribunal document 2360-PS which is a report of a speechof Hitler's in the Voelkischer Boebachter and, if the Tribunal would be good enough to look at it, it is a useful date to fix with regard to the aggression against Czechoslovakia because that was the day on which Hitler on his own proclamation had decided that aggression was to take place against Czechoslovakia, The extract which I've taken is quite short and, if the Tribunal-would look at the extract which says "Page 1, Columns 5 and 6, bottom", 2360-PS-
THE PRESIDENT: This is out of order.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: It's extremely short, My Lord.
THE PRESIDENT: You will read it?
DIR DAVID MAXWELL-FIFE: I'll read it. The important passage is:
"On the basis of this unbearable provocation which was still further emphasized by a truly infamous persecution and terrorizing of our Germans there I have now decided to solve the Sudeten-German question in a final and radical manner."
This was in January 1939. Then he goes on to say:
"On 28 May I gave the order for the preparation of military steps against this state, to be concluded by 2 October."
nut into effect to come to fruition at the beginning of October. That is the second stage:
"To lay well in advance your plans of aggression."
"The third stare is to see that the neighboring states are not likely to cause you trouble."
Czechoslovakia was discussed. That is US Exhibit 5, Document 2008-PS.
I think it's sufficient for me to say to the Tribunal that the to action, although it was ready enough with sympathy.
These are to be found in the documents which I have mentioned.
And, again, unless the Tribunal desires, I shan't read any document that I summarized that way.
Now, I've already mentioned that there had been contact with the Sudeten Germans.
That was the long term grievance that had to be ex ploited.
But the next stage was to have a short grievance and to stir up trouble, preferably at the fountainhead.
And so, between the 16th and 2855-PS, 2854-PS, 2853-PS, and 2856-PS.
I've read them in order of date, And it's interesting, if the Tribunal would look at these.
They ought to "Please inform Deputy Kundt at Conrad Henlein's request to get in touch with the Slovaks at once and induce them to start demands."
crisis. After, as the Tribunal will remember, on the 29th of September, the Munich agreement was signed.
That's GB-23, Document TC-23, which I've already read to the Tribunal.