GÖRING: I can quote only from memory. There were present to draw up a report: The leader of the Secret State Police in Berlin, Heydrich; the Minister of the Interior, Dr. Frick; Dr. Goebbels you have mentioned already; the then Minister of Economy, Funk, was there; the Finance Minister, Count Schwerin von Krosigk; and Fischböck from Austria.
Those are the only names I can recall at present, but there may have been a few others there too.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Part of the time, Hilgard, representing the insurance companies, was also present, was he not?
GÖRING: He was summoned and waited there. His views were asked on special questions.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, you have been shown the stenographic minutes of that meeting which are in evidence as Exhibit Number USA-261, being Document Number 1816-PS, have you not, in your interrogation?
GÖRING: Yes.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: I will ask that they be shown to you, and now, so that we may have no misunderstanding about the translations.
You opened the meeting with this statement. I will read it: “Gentlemen . . .” I think perhaps we had better be clear about which meeting it was. This is the meeting held on the 12th day of November 1938 at the office of the Reich Air Ministry. That is correct, is it not?
GÖRING: Yes, that is correct.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: You opened the meeting: