MR. ROBERTS: It is typewritten in the office copy which is the original.
THE PRESIDENT: There is no actual signature?
MR. ROBERTS: No.
THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): How does it connect with Keitel then?
MR. ROBERTS: “Vermerk Chef OKW”—that is “note of the Chief of OKW.”
Now, that is the first minute. My Lord, the second minute is on the same subject, and it is dated the 6th of January 1944; and there is a large red Keitel “K” initialed on the top of this letter, showing that he got it. My Lord, the first paragraph deals with two officers who were then at Eichstätt Camp in Bavaria. My Lord, there is no importance in that paragraph, because those two officers are still alive.
The second paragraph:
“Attempted attacks on the battleship Tirpitz.
“At the end of October ’42 a British commando that had come to Norway in a cutter had orders to carry out an attack on the battleship Tirpitz in Drontheim Fjord by means of a two-man torpedo. The action failed since both torpedoes which were attached to the cutter were lost in the stormy sea. From the crew consisting of six Englishmen and four Norwegians, a party of three Englishmen and two Norwegians were challenged on the Swedish border. However, only the British seaman Robert Paul Evans, born 14 January ’22 at London, could be arrested . . . the others escaped into Sweden.