STRÖLIN: I do not doubt that he would remember this.
COL. AMEN: Do you recall having a conversation with him in June of 1940?
STRÖLIN: At the moment I cannot say unless you tell me what it was about.
COL. AMEN: Well, I will tell you what you are reported by him to have said and I ask you whether you recall having said that to him, either in the exact words which I put to you, or in substance. Do you understand?
STRÖLIN: Yes, I understand.
COL. AMEN: Here are the words: “I warn you against National Socialism, which does not recoil before anything, and which makes justice its servile agent. They are criminals and I have but the one wish—to get out of it.”
Did you say that to Weninger in words or in substance? “Yes” or “no”?
STRÖLIN: I did not quite understand what you said. Will you please repeat it?
COL. AMEN: You understand English, don’t you, Witness?
STRÖLIN: Some. I understand just a little.