VON STEENGRACHT: Yes.
DR. NELTE: Do I remember your testimony of yesterday correctly, that all you have said about this matter is information from, or based on information from Herr Von Ribbentrop?
VON STEENGRACHT: No.
DR. NELTE: What do you know from your own personal knowledge?
VON STEENGRACHT: From my own personal knowledge I only know that our liaison man with Hitler called me on the telephone and told me that Goebbels had proposed to Hitler that 10,000 or more British and American prisoners of war be shot in reprisal, and that Hitler would agree or had agreed. I immediately reported this to Von Ribbentrop, and he went there at once and told me after half an hour that the order had been withdrawn. About Field Marshal Keitel I know nothing at all in that connection.
DR. NELTE: You do not know, therefore, who was the originator of that order?
VON STEENGRACHT: No.
DR. NELTE: Who suggested it, I mean.
VON STEENGRACHT: The suggestion for that order evidently came from Goebbels according to the information which I received.
DR. NELTE: Through Herr Von Ribbentrop, do you mean?