STRÖLIN: Yes, I found the place.
LT. COL. GRIFFITH-JONES: “Deputy Gauleiter Schmidt, representing Dr. Goebbels, stated, ‘The local Party leadership (Gauleitung) is prepared to co-operate through thick and thin with the new officers of the Deutsches Auslands-Institut.’ ”
Hess, you know, was in charge of the Party leadership, wasn’t he—the Gauleiter? We will go on:
“National Socialism will demand the blood unity of all Germans as its historic right.”
Will you look now at Page 463—we will leave that—Will you look now...
STRÖLIN: May I say something in connection with this?
LT. COL. GRIFFITH-JONES: If you please, yes.
STRÖLIN: The Deputy Gauleiter, Schmidt, was here purely in his capacity as a deputy of the Gauleiter, but he was not the Deputy of Rudolf Hess.
LT. COL. GRIFFITH-JONES: No. But the point I am putting—I will make it quite clear—is that the Gauleitung which came under Hess was going to co-operate with your institution through thick and thin. You appreciate that?
STRÖLIN: That is obvious.