SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Then, you say again:
“At any rate, it is a clear fact that our men did not shoot any of them; they must all have been shot by policemen.”
And you point out in the last sentence:
“But in this particular case, only those caught by our people were brought back to the camp, that is, those caught by soldiers.”
Now, in the next paragraph you say that you had no authority to give the police orders, and you repeat that the members of the Wehrmacht did not shoot any of them. And then in the third sentence you say:
“I had a report sent me at once, and told General Von Graevenitz, ‘Sir, the only thing we can do is to see that no dirty business is carried out where we are in charge.’ ”
Is that right: Does that correctly describe what you did, General?
WESTHOFF: Yes.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Now, you go on to say, a sentence or two later, that you were faced with a fait accompli; and then you say, after repeating General Von Graevenitz’s protests to Field Marshal Keitel, when he had said, “That’s quite impossible, we cannot shoot any people”:
“How the shooting was carried out I heard from the representative of the protecting power, Herr Naville, of Switzerland.”