COL. AMEN: As a matter of fact, you were interrogated in English by one of our interrogators, were you not?
STRÖLIN: I spoke a little English only on one occasion, but I believe that he did not understand me correctly.
COL. AMEN: And you understood perfectly well what I just read to you, did you not?
STRÖLIN: I did not fully understand the German translation of what you said and the substance of your question is not clear to me.
COL. AMEN: Well, I shall read it to you again. But I suggest that you are merely taking this time in order to find out what answer you want to make. I ask you again whether you said to Weninger in words or in substance, in June of 1940, the following:
“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.”
Do you understand?
STRÖLIN: Yes, I understand but I do not recall having made that statement.
COL. AMEN: Do you deny having made that statement when I tell you that Weninger so states—Weninger, whom you have just told us has every obligation to you?
STRÖLIN: I do not remember it. It may be true that I made critical statements, but I do not recall the wording.