PAULUS: I request to have them presented to me, because there is nothing known to me about them.
DR. SAUTER: Do you have any idea what was in the last telegram?
PAULUS: In the last telegram there was a short description of what the army had done, of the achievement of the army, and it was pointed out that it did not intend to capitulate, and that that should be an example for the future.
DR. SAUTER: The answer was, I think, your promotion to General Field Marshal?
PAULUS: I do not know that this was the answer.
DR. SAUTER: But you were promoted to General Field Marshal, and you still have that title because the statement which I have submitted to the Court is signed “Paulus, General Field Marshal.”
PAULUS: Well, I have to say. . . . Do you mean this statement?
DR. SAUTER: Yes, this statement.
PAULUS: Yes, I had to take that title which was conferred upon me.
DR. SAUTER: In this statement which I have submitted to the Court as proof, there is the last sentence: