I now read from Item 48, at Page 82, of the Schmundt file. This is a top-secret telegram sent by Keitel to Hitler’s headquarters on 11 October 1938 in answer to four questions which Hitler had propounded to the OKW. I think it is sufficient merely to read the questions which Hitler had propounded:
“Question 1. What reinforcements are necessary in the situation to break all Czech resistance in Bohemia and Moravia?
“Question 2. How much time is requested for the regrouping or moving up of new forces?
“Question 3. How much time will be required for the same purpose if it is executed after the intended demobilization and return measures?
“Question 4. How much time would be required to achieve the state of readiness of 1 October?”
On 21 October, the same day on which the administration of the Sudetenland was handed over to the civilian authorities, a directive outlining plans for the conquest of the remainder of Czechoslovakia was signed by Hitler and initialed by the Defendant Keitel.
I now offer in evidence Document C-136 as Exhibit USA-104, a top-secret order of which 10 copies were made, this being the first copy, signed in ink by Keitel.