I did not mean personalities within the Voelkischer-Beo bachter; I meant personalities at the headquarters.
Therefore, Dr. Dietrich raid his delegates made it their business to call the Voelkischer-Beobachter direct.
Q. You know that Rosenberg, since the year 1937, was not the chief editor of the Voelkischer-Beobachter?
A. I am of the conviction that even before that time he held that position in names only.
Q. Witness, can you tell the court, as far as the so-called actions of the Party were concerned--and I mean the burning of the books, the boycott in April of 1933, the Jewish actions in November of 1938-- who was the motivating factor in all of these actions?
A. Today I am of the firm conviction that it was Dr. Goebbels.
Q. Witness, do you know that Goebbels, whenever Hitler was in Berlin, always was Hitler's guest?
A. That is not true in that way and in that sense. Before the war Dr. Goebbels saw Hitler only rarely.
Q. I have another question. Do you know that Goebbels had a direct telephone line to Hitler?
A. That is news to me. How is the first time I heard that.
THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Thoma, this has nothing; to do with Rosenberg, has it, the fact that Goebbels had a direct line to Hitler?
DR. THOMA: Mr. President, I wanted to know by that only wheter Fritsche knows that Rosenberg had the same connection to Hitler and Goebbels.
THE WITNESS: I do not know what kind of telephone Rosenber had, and his connections. But I know, and I have heard frequen tly that Rosenberg seldom visited Hitler.
DR. THOMA: Thank you very much, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any other defendants counsel that wants to ask questions?
(No response).
THE PRESIDENT: Then we will recess.
(A recess was taken).
THE PRESIDENT: Does the prosecution wish to cross-examine?
BY GENERAL RUDENKO: of all in order to clear up the role you played.
A May I have the volume increased slightly, please? Thank you very much. role which the German propaganda played in the criminal activity of the Hitler government. Tell me, do you admit that the German propaganda disseminated racial theory and introduced into the minds of the German people the ideas regardingthe "master race" of the German people, do you admit that?
A The question touches upon two problems. May I reply to you to both of them? I admit that German propaganda spread, the racial theory, but I deny that German propaganda spread the theory of the "master race."
Q So you deny this?
Q Very well. Do you admit that the German propaganda incited in the German people racial hatred toward the Jews and told about the necessities of their extermination? I answer separately?
Q You don't have to emphasize this. You can just answer. If there are two questions included you can reply to the two questions at the same time. German propaganda represented the racial theory but I deny that most emphatically that German propaganda had made preparationsor had incited the mass murder of Jews.
Q But you couldn't deny that the German propaganda incited in the German people their racial hatred toward Jews. You will have to admit that. You couldn't deny this.
A I cannot even affirm that without reserve. That is the reason why, in my answer to the second question, I used a slightly different touch.
German propaganda, and under that I understand official German propaganda, did not even preach racial hatred.
It preached the difference between races and that is something quite different but I will admit to you that there was one type of German propaganda which went beyond that and which did preach the clear out and primitive racial hatred. directed to the persecution of the church? toward the persecution of the church?
A That is exactly what I wanted to say. Official German propaganda did not persecute the churches but to clear up this point for you, here again there was an illegal propaganda not run by the state against the church and the state and its organizations, they were above this during the time of the church struggle,have made many utterances and committed many actions which might have created the impression as if they had participated in the struggle against the churches. By this, I mean the trials against clergymen and which had been organized as sensational trials.
Q Very well. You will admit that the propaganda conducted by the Hitlerite government connected with the so-called problem of the expansion of the life area of Germany, cultivated and expounded in the German nation militaristic tendencies. and lies and slander in order to camouflage the aggressive plans of the Hitlerite government?
A Mr. Prosecutor, to answer that question is something I am finding most difficult, after having testified to hear in this courtroom voluntarily yesterday. If I am to make the attempt to summarize very briefly, then I shall have to say this: I maintain that the German propaganda has given to the German nation in the case of every individual action which was carried out beginning with the occupation of the Rhineland and ending with the attack against the Soviet Union, a picture of the events which amongst the Germans much have created the impression that we were in the right. On the other hand, however, I myself -- and I emphasized when this was--had recognized that the structure of these arguments had a basis which was ruptured in many places.
Q What is to say, on the basis of slander and lies?
A No. Please, let me apologize but your way of putting it doesn't appear to be quite clear-cut enough. methods of slander and lies; do you deny this? paganda and I should like you to permit me to give you a very brief explanation in this connection. Looking at it today -
Q Please, will you give an explanation only directly to my question? German people that its propaganda, particularly with regard to its details which could be controlled, was so clean that it was completely overlooked, that in its free and most basic principles there were three mistakes. I cannot make it more clear to you.
Q About which mistakes are you speaking about?
A The first, the trust in Adolf Hitler's humanitarian point of view which was destroyed by the order to murder five million. The second, the trust in the ethical cleanliness of the system destroyed by the orders as to culture; and the third, the trust in the unreserved will for peace of Adolf Hitler shaken by everything which has been brought up in this courtroom.
Q. Very well. We shall report to these questions later when we speak about your personal participation in the conducting of the German propaganda.
I should like to ask you now the following: Of course you were aware that in the OKW there was a special section for propaganda, which was subordinate directly to defendant Jodl?
A. That was known to me, but you are mistaken if you are under the impression that that department was under defendant Jodl. It was under the jurisdiction of General Wedel and he was succeeded by Standartenfuehrer Gunther.
Q. Very well. I shall not repeat this question any further, but I am interested in another question: What were the relations between the Ministry of Propaganda and the OKW?
A. Between the Ministry of Propaganda and the OKW, I cannot tell you, not generally, but I can give you detailed informations about the connection between the Ministry of Propaganda and this department, this Propaganda Department of the OKW which you have just mentioned. A permament representative from that department worked in the ministerial offices of Dr. Goebbels, who participated daily in the Ministry conferences which I have already mentioned once, and who was really always a member of the immediate entourage of Dr. Goebbels.
Q. Who was the one who gave the propaganda tasks and the directives to the OKW?
A. I can only imagine the situation like this: The propaganda tasks of the OKW were drawn up and coordinated to Dr. Goebbels'wishes and the instruction from the chief of the OKW, which means Keitel or Jodl.
Q. How was the general German propaganda used in connection with the propaganda measures which were put through by the OKW?
A. I don't quite understand the meaning of your question I'm afraid.
Q. How was the general German propaganda used in connection with the propaganda measures which were put into life by the OKW?
A. very probably it was just fitted into the propaganda measures adopted by the OKW, because Dr. Goebbels was so strong a personality that he would not have tolerated any disregard for his propagandist principles.
Q. Very well. I will ash you to reply to this question: What relations existed between the Ministry of Propaganda and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
A. At one time or another relations were somewhat tense, but during the latter years of the war a representative from the Foreign Ministry participated in the minister conferences of the Propaganda Ministry at all times.
Q. What part did the Ministry of Foreign Affairs play in the purrting through of the propaganda measures which especially referred to the preparation and execution of the aggresive wars?
A. May I give you this answer to your question: During every moment at the beginning of an action or a war, a representative from the Foreign Office used to appear with a completed book, a White Book. I am unaware of the origin of these White Books. At any rate, there were not prepared in the Ministry of Propaganda. In a few cases I learned afterwards, a few details about their origin, which came from the Foreign Office.
Q. Would it be correct to make the following deduction, that the Ministry of foreign Affairs participated directly and actively in the preparation of the propaganda tasks and -
A. No doubt that is true because particularly the Foreign Minister reserved himself the decisive word with reference to propaganda which was connected with foreign policy and also with reference to any propaganda which went abroad.
Q. Did you have in mind defendant Ribbentrop when you just replied and when you spoke about his role?
A. Of course.
Q. Very well. You acknowledge and maintain that defendant Ribbentrop personally gave out the propaganda tasks and explained the attack on the Soviet Union as a preventative war?
A. That question cannot be answered with yes or no, but with a very brief description of the facts.
The former Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop received, in the early morning hours of the day when the Russian campaign started, the foreign Press conrrespondents and the German Press. He put a White Book before them and he went on to explain in a speech what the situation was, and concluded in this sense, that he emphasized that for all these reasons Germany was forced to begin this attack against the Soviet Union in order to beat a Soviet attack to it, and please, will you Gentlemen of the Press present the facts in this particular manner.
Q. I should like to determine through this question that the propaganda tasks were given by defendant Ribbentrop himself, and you do admit and maintain it?
A. I beg to apologize, but I have admitted exactly what I have said, and your last question is a conclusion based on what I have said, and that I do not want to agree to.
Q. Yes. However, to my previous question you did reply and spoke about the decisive role of defendant Ribbentrop in questions of propagadna, the foreign policy propaganda; is that correct?
A. Perfectly correct.
Q. It is enough; let's skip that question. Please tell me what were the relations between the Minister of Propaganda and the so-called ministry of the Eastern Occupied Territories? Please explain to me in this connection, how were the relations carried on between these two ministries?
A. There was a permanent Liaison officer who was a member both of the Ministry for Eastern Affairs and the ministry of Propaganda, and beyond that, there was an institution which had been founded by both ministries jointly, and was jointly administrated by them. It was the institution called "Veneta", which handled the entire propaganda in the East.
Q. Yes, I understand. In what order and who, specifically, prepared the propaganda slogans, as you called then, in Germany, which were intended for the occupied territories? Who was the one who planned and prepared them?
A I cannot tell you under oath, because I am not so 28 June M LJG 9-1 absolutely certain, but it is my assumption that they were developed, based on the well-known existing principles of general propaganda by Dr. Taubert who was mentioned, and his associates, in this institute called Veneta.
Q Very well. But apparently you are aware of the fact, and will also tell us about it, that the leading influence of the Ministry of Propaganda was being felt in all these measures.
A Quite definitely. Indubitably the ministry of Propaganda had the superior initiative here, and the better influence.
Q That is clear. Tell me, what influence did the defendant Bormann have on German propaganda? What role did he personally play in that?
A That role was unusually great. I know that it isn't very popular when there are statements here about a man who presumably is dead. In the interests of the historic truth, however, I shall never theless have to tell you this.
Q We don't knew yet whether Bormann is dead. We only know that he is not present on the defendants' bench, but he is, however, one of the defendants. strong, not only in every other sphere, but also in the propaganda sector. It became apparent in the following way: agitation which I mentioned yesterday, that of the most radical outlook. A teleprint message from Bormann to Dr. Goebbels with, shall we say, the following contents, " I hear complaints from Party circles regarding this that or the other," would always be the cause for Dr. Goebbels' entire machinery to accelerate considerably.
Secondly -- and this is something which I can't express differently under oath -- Dr. Goebbels was quite clearly scared of Martin Bormann.
Finally, he always tried to have any actions of his which 28 June M LJG 9-2 might have been misinterpreted by radical elements in the party justified in Bormann's eyes.
who were not named here during my cross examination actively participated in the propaganda activities, and in what form. Perhaps you will be able to tell us something about the defendants who are present here.
A I certainly don't like to, Mr. Prosecutor, but I shall give you your answer. came from, one of the departments under the command of the defendant Kaltenbrunner. Whether he was responsible for it in person, that I do not know, but here are the facts: During the struggle for realistic news service which I mentioned yesterday, I repeat edly came up against resistance from the Party and the Foreign Office, and I found the support of a department, the name of which I have forgotten, which belonged to the RSHA, most useful. This department used to issue reports about the general viewpoint amongst the people in Germany, and these reports were sent to various supreme authorities in the Reich. praise for realistic news, the very thing which had been fought against by the other two sources which I have mentioned. who else of the defendants could you name? any influence or not?
Q Why do you say "unfortunately"? a very beneficial task. He was, shall we say, the complaint department for all shortcomings in the Party and the State. I wish he could have continued.
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Q Very well; we don't need to speak about it in detail. Now, let's go into the explanation of your personal participation and your personal role in the activity of German propaganda. I should like you to state exactly what relations you had with Dr. Goebbels. Yesterday you spoke about it in detail, but here I should like you to state it briefly.
A The briefest formula is this: Personally, little touch; officially, as time went by, more and more touch.
Q Yes. Did you know the name of General Fieldmarshal Scherner? his testimony. I am submitting this document as Exhibit USSR472. We are going to hand you this document in a minute. In order to facilitate the reading of it, the paragraph which I am going to read here is underlined in red pencil. I am going to read Paragraph No. 1 into the record. Will you please follow the text:
"Everybody was aware, including myself, that Fritsche was not only a close associate of Goebbels, but was also a favorite of his. He gained Goebbels' sympathy by frequently copying him in his political activities and quoting Goebbels in his speeches. Goebbels, in his printed and verbal speeches, referred to the conclusions and prognoses made by Fritsche as having the force of official declarations." reality? 1, 2, or 3?
Q I have already told you that this is Quotation No. 1.
AAccording to my text, the first one says:
"It was generally known, and I knew as well, that Fritsche was not only Goebbels' fellow fighter, but also his darling."
" Yes, that is quite correct. That is exactly what I quoted.
I am asking you whether this corresponds to reality.
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A I shouldn't have expressed it like that, and I think it is a question of taste.
A Just a moment. I shall have to say something else; I shall have to add something.
The expression "nearest fellow fighter of Goebbels" is wrong objectively seen, and " darling" --well, I don't think so.
Q Yes, very well. Let's go further. had wide powers in the Ministry of Propaganda which were entrusted to you.
Q Very well. Thus, enjoying his confidence and having full powers, in your utterances you fully mirrored the demands of the Hitler Government which were made tasks of German propaganda, is that correct? from your testimony of the 12th of September 1945. I am submitting this document as USSR Exhibit 474. I am going to read into the record Extract No. 1.
A May I have the document? Will you please follow after me. It is underlined in red pencil. I am reading:
"During a long time I was one of the leaders of German propaganda."
I skip a few lines and further read :
"I must say that Goebbels valued me as a sure National Socialist and a capable journalist in connection with which in the apparatus of the German propaganda I was one of his trusted people."
Is that correct ?
A Mr. Prosecutor, that is not correct. I know that I have signed this report but at the very moment when I signed this report in Moscow I stated:
"You can do what you like with that record. If you publish it then nobody in Germany will believe it and no intelligent person in other countries will because this report contains language which is not mine." was put to me in that same form and I go on to declare that not a single one of the answers in that record was given by me in that form and I signed it for reasons which I will explain to you in detail if you want me to.
Q You therefore deny these statements ? which you deny, says that Goebbels valued you as a National Socialist and a capable journalist and in the apparatus of German propaganda you were a trustworthy person. This is the essence of the quotation, is that right ? Do you deny this ? Just a minute please. I am going to remind you -admit.
Q Well, them the quotation was correct, was it not ?
Q Then you do corroborate this statement ? entirety. quotation which I just read into the record. You are not going to deny it, you admit it ? contents which you have just summarized again.
Q The sense is not different from the actual quotation but in connection with that I should like to ask you regarding the following, or rather remind you regarding -
THE PRESIDENT : One moment. What is it you are saying, defendant ? Are you saying that you did not sign this document or that you did ?
THE WITNESS : Mr. President, I signed the document, although its contents did not correspond with my own statements.
THE PRESIDENT : Why did you do that ?
THE WITNESS : I wrote that signature after very severe solitary confinement which had lasted for several months and I wrote that signature because one of my fellow prisoners, whom I had one chance to meet, had told me that once every month a court, based merely on outside records and without interrogation, was pronouncing sentences and I hoped that in this manner I would at least achieve being sentenced and thus terminate my confinement. force was used and that I was treated very humanely, even if my detention was very severe. BY GENERAL RUDENKO :
Q Very well. Of course, you never thought, defendant Fritsche, that because of the acts you committed you would be arrested. It is obvious that you would land in a prison and a prison is always a prison. This was just an aside, however.
I should like to ask you about the following. You stated that in 1945 you signed this because of a very strict regime to which you were submitted. here in Nurnberg ?
Q By General Alexandrov ?
I should like to remind you of some of your answers. On 12 November, 1945, questions were put to you and you replied. Do you remember these statements ? You said :
"I was very often cross-examined and I do not know what statements and testimony are in question now."
and you answered him:
"I am fully aware of this document."
You were asked: "I should like you to peruse this document. Do you remember these statements?"
You said. "Of course, there is no doubt about it." and you said: "Of course."
Do you remember this statement which you made in Nurnberg? missing with reference to which I stated again and again, that the record was put before me complete and for the purpose of obtaining my signature. I had twenty or thirty alterations that I designed. Some of them were fulfilled. Those passages are looking, wherein I said in Nurnberg that certain tendencies in my answers in that, protocol were true but that none of them actually do represent my own answers. of 7 January, 1946.
GENERAL RUDENKO: Your Honors, this is Exhibit 3469-PS. It is not in my book of documents as it was submitted by the defendant. I am going to quote from that document, it is a very short document. BY GENERALRUDENKO:
"Once Goebbels tried to coerce me into submitting my texts for perusal. I refused this request and explained that usually I dictated a short resume of my speech immediately before my broadcast and consequently, so to say, improvise my speeches. He said it was all right but on condition that if he would wish it again,I should in the future only speak on specific, given themes." Is that right? that not right? deny it.
Q Very well. Let us proceed.
is to say in your statement of 7 January, 1946, in paragraph 35 there is this sentence and it was written in your own hand, I think. It was in reply to some of the questions put by your counsel. You say:
"I was the only official organ in the ministry in the field of radio communication."
Is that right? Does that correspond to reality? quoted the passage correctly and I have written it.
Q So, it does correspond to actual reality? after Goebbels you occupied the most prominent position?
A No, my previous answer does not contain such a statement. I will admit that I had a most influential position in German radio, of which I was the head. in the entire set-up of propaganda after Dr. Goebbels, I will reply to you Dr. Dietrich, the Secretary of State, or Dr. Naumann, the -
Q Excuse me, just a minute please. I did not say the second place, I said only the most prominent position. Are you going to deny this?
A I have no objection to your use of the word "influential", but it does not change my answer.
Q Very well, "influential position", if you like. That is still stronger. Let us proceed, however. paragraph 15 -- that the task during the entire period from 1933 to 1945 of the Section of the German Press was the supervision of the local press. Over 2,300 German newspapers were to be supervised in that fashion. Furthermore, during the execution of this task given to me by Dr. Goebbels, in accordance with instructions of the Ministry of Propaganda, I was the leader and I conducted it for the entire German Radio."
Is that correct?
A I don't know whether you have quoted the last sentences correctly, but I have certainly fully recognized the first sentences. It is my affidavit 3469-PS. That corresponds word for word with the truth.
QQuite correct. Please tell me this: Did you organize in the section of which you were the head, the section of the German press, the Schnelldienst, the so-called speed service, which was giving provocative material to the German press?
A If you will eliminate the word "provocative" and replace it with the word "propaganda" material, then I will admit it.
Q All right. I think the Tribunal will beable to evaluate this statement. We are not going to argue about this.
Now, the last question from this group of questions: Tell me, your broadcasts on the radio, which were presented with "Hans Fritsche speaks" -were they official and government sponsored?
A I explained this situation to you yesterday. Actually, they were a private work of my own, but the private work, publicly audible , of a Ministerialdirektor of the Ministry of Propaganda and the head of the German radio system would, of course, then be regarded as semi-official, though not fully official, and this fact I had to consider, and I did consider it.
Q All right. Now, I should like again to revert to the testimony of Ferdinand Schorner, which I have already submitted to the Tribunal as USSR 472. I should like to quote paragraph number (2). Do you find it, defendant Fritsche?
THE PRESIDENT: General Rudenko, the Tribunal would like to see the whole of this document, or at any rate would like to see the questions to which these are the answers.
GENERALRUDENKO: Mr. President, this document has been submitted to you in full.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, I see, you mean that what we have in English are only the parts that have been translated into English?
GENERAL RUDENKO: Yes, that is quite correct. I am going to read into the record Extract Number 2. BY GENERAL RUDENKO:
Q "I am fully aware that Fritsche was the main collaborator of the Ministry of Propaganda and that he was extremely popular in National Socialist circles and amongst the German people. He was widely known, especially for his weekly international political commentaries. I often heard Fritsche's broadcasts in peacetime as well as during the war. His broadcasts were fanatically partial to the Fuehrer."
Do you agree with this evaluation?
THE PRESIDENT: General Rudenko, is the document sworn?
GENERAL RUDENKO: This document was submitted in accordance with the processes which are in use in the Soviet Union.
THE PRESIDENT: where was it taken?
GENERAL RUDENKO: In Moscow.
THE PRESIDENT: Was the man who made the statement, was he free or was he in prison?
GENERAL RUDENKO: He was at the time a prisoner of war.
THE PRESIDENT: Did the man who is alleged to have made the statement sign it?
GENERALRUDENKO: Of course, it was signed by him.
THE PRESIDENT: Go on.
GENERAL RUDENKO: Thank you. THE WITNESS: May I add that it is known to me that in the far corners of German colonies abroad, my radio speeches were, shall we say, the political comments.
BY GENERAL RUDENKO:
Q Yes, I understand. I should like to put to you anotherdocument which I will ask you to peruse.
GENERAL RUDENKO: Your Honors, I am submitting as Exhibit USSR-471 the testimony of Hans Foss. BY GENERAL RUDENKO:
Q Do you know this name, Vice admiral Hans Foss?
DR. FRITZ: (Counsel for defendant Fritsche) I apologize, Mr. President. Perhaps not too much should be attached to the Schorner record, but at any rate I am unable to ascertain from the document the place where it was taken.
THE PRESIDENT: General Rudenko says that it was taken at Moscow.
DR. FRITZ: But the record, the protocol itself does not show that, and then I have also noticed that the photostatic copy which I have here does not show the signature. It just says "signed". Later on in the right margin a handwritten signature has been affixed, but I do not know whether this is the common procedure there or what.
THE PRESIDENT: You can see the original and compare it. BY GENERAL RUDENKO: by Hans Foss. Please look at the extract number 1, which is underlined:
"Being wholly faithful to Hitler and the National Socialist Party, Fritsche extended priceless services in spreading National Socialism throughout Germany."
Is that in accordance with reality?
Q In other words, you are in accord with it? that I concur.
Q On the other hand, you do not deny this?
Q Very well. I understands Let us proceed further. I should like to question you regarding your attitude toward the racial theory. Yesterday you explained in detail in this connection to your Defense Counsel, and I am going to put to you only two or three questions, and I should like you to reply briefly.
Did you share this racial theory?
Q All right. In a radio broadcast on 8 February 1940 there was an utterance concerning Poland. This document is USSR Exhibit 496. I am not going to read this whole document into the record because I do not want to propagandize the views contained in it, but I should like you to peruse the document, and I should like to ask you to peruse Extract Number 1, which is contained in this document, and it is underlined in red pencil. This refers to your evaluation of the Polish nation. I should like to simply ask you if that is your own statement. I see an extract of only 20 lines, considering that I have spoken about 1,000 times, as I said yesterday. In that case, you will have to let me have the speech as such so that I can recognize the thoughts which I was talking about at the time.
Q Did you examine this extract from the document? You have a com plete photostat of the document before you. This is a full text of your utterance which took place on 6 February 1940 at 1845 on Radio Station Danzig Sender.
A General, we have twenty lines before us here. They begin with the words, "Considerable effort was necessary to --"
Q That is the document to which I am referring. I am asking you if that is your speech. speech, then I can only confirm to you this: At the time I had seen the official German documents dealing with the atrocities committed against Germans in Poland, and with great disgust, I talked about that on the radio, talked about what I saw in those documents.
THE PRESIDENT: Shall we adjourn now?
DR. THOMA (Counsel for defendant Rosenberg): I ask you to grant leave for defendant Rosenberg to be absent from the Court this afternoon because I have an important conference to hold with him.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
(A recess was taken until 1400 hours) AFTERNOON SESSION (The Tribunal reconvened at 1400 hours, 28 June 1946) BY GENERAL RUDENKO : be handed to you.
They concern the opposition which the German Fascist troops encountered whilst entering upon Soviet territory. This document has already been submitted by the defense.
Will you look at point 7, the last paragraph ? I do not intend to read it.
Q Very well. Do you admit that you used those expressions ?
A Yes, I admit that. I should like to emphasize, whithout quoting, the context with which this statement was made.
Q Very well. I would like to ask you this. When, in your speeches, you call Polish and Russian peoples "under-people", when you insult them, don't you consider that these are expressions of mankind-hating theories ?
A Mr. Prosecutor, I should like to assert that I never accused the Russian people or the Polish people of being inferior.
Q Very well. I do not intend to argue about it, for the documents speak for themselves.
I would now like to turn anew to the statement of Hans Voss. This is document USSR Exhibit 471. Will you pay attention to excerpt number 2 ? It is underlined. It is just a short excerpt, and I will read it :
"Fritsche cleverly influenced the spirits of the Germans persuading them that they, the Germans, were a superior race and therefore must rule other peoples like their slaves."
Does that correspond to the facts ?
A No, it does not agree with the truth; rather, it contradicts the truth on all points.
Q Let's say it contradicts your assertions.
Very well,.I will put another question to you. commandant of the town of Warsaw ?