“1. What do we consider as murder? Is the Foreign Office in agreement with point 3b?
“2. How should the procedure be carried out? a. By the people? b. By the authorities?
“3. How can we guarantee that the procedure will not be also carried out against other enemy aviators?
“4. Should some legal procedure be arranged or not?”—Signed—“Jodl.”
It is important, I respectfully submit, to note that this defendant and the Foreign Office were fully in on these breaches of the laws and usages of war, and indeed the clarity with which the Foreign Office perceives that there were breaches of the laws and usages of war, is shown by the next document, which is 728-PS, which I now put in as GB-152. That is a document from the Foreign Office, approved of by the Defendant Ribbentrop and transmitted by one of his officials called Ritter; and the fact that it is approved by this defendant is specifically stated in the next Document 740-PS, which I put in as GB-153. I do not think this Document 728-PS has been read before, and therefore, again, I would like to read just one or two passages in it. It begins:
“In spite of the obvious objections, based on international law and foreign policy, the Foreign Office is basically in agreement with the proposed measures.