MR. ALDERMAN: I am sorry, Sir; Document 2469-PS.
THE PRESIDENT: We haven’t had that yet. We have had 2461-PS, which is exhibit what?
MR. ALDERMAN: Well, I hadn’t read it in. I was asking the Tribunal to take judicial notice of this as an official communiqué.
THE PRESIDENT: You are not going to give it an exhibit number?
MR. ALDERMAN: No, Sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Nor 2469?
MR. ALDERMAN: No, Sir.
In actual fact, great pressure was put on Schuschnigg at Berchtesgaden. The fact that pressure was exerted, and pressure of a military nature involving the threat of the use of troops, can be sufficiently established from captured German documents.
I have our Document 1544-PS, a captured German document, which I offer in evidence as Exhibit USA-71.
This document consists of the Defendant Von Papen’s own notes on his last meeting with Schuschnigg, on February 26, 1938. I quote the last two paragraphs of these notes. This is Von Papen speaking, in his own notes: