And then a little further down:
“. . . the stronger and freer we feel ourselves to be, the more generously, the more freely are we able to disregard what happened in the past and to extend our hand with complete sincerity in reconciliation.”
I further quote from a speech of the defendant on 26 March 1938, Document Book Number 1, Page 37, likewise a quotation from Hermann Göring’s Speeches and Compositions, the exhibit number of which is 14. I quote only one sentence from it:
“. . . you were great in suffering and enduring; you were great in standing firm; great in fighting. Now you must show that you are also great in kindness, and especially so towards the many who were misled.”
His attitude towards the Church the defendant has . . .
THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Stahmer, can you not give the exhibit number?
DR. STAHMER: Yes, I think it was Number 13. I shall look again. It was Number 14.
His attitude towards the Church was expressed by the Defendant Göring in several speeches. In this respect, on 26 October 1935, he made the following statement. I am quoting from Hermann Göring’s Speeches and Compositions, Document Book 1, Page 39, Document Number 15, the following sentences:
“It rests with the Church alone whether it wishes to have peace. We, the Movement, and in particular the Government and the State, have never attacked the Church; we have assured protection to the Church, and the Church knows that it enjoys this protection also today to the fullest extent.
“Therefore, there is nothing to warrant blaming us for anything in this respect.”