SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Well, it does not look like that. Let me remind you of the words, “Maréchal Keitel, dans le cadré des pouvoirs qui lui ont été donnés les 26 et 27 Juin 1942.” That date. It is acting within the powers given to you by the Führer. Had you not been given the powers?
KEITEL: No, I did not have any such powers in that case. That is a mistake. However, I may have put a signature, “By order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Keitel, Field Marshal.”
THE PRESIDENT: Are you passing from that?
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Yes, I was going to pass on.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, isn’t Document D-775 relevant to that? The last line of the first paragraph.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: My Lord, I am very grateful to you.
THE PRESIDENT: D-775. As I understand it, the defendant was saying that he did not know what would necessarily happen to these prisoners if they were handed over to the SD. Those are the last words of the first paragraph.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Very good, My Lord.
[Turning to the defendant.] The words are, “...the handing over of airmen from the Air Force Reception Camp at Oberursel to the SD for special treatment.”
We know, Defendant, that “special treatment” means death. Didn’t you know, in 1944, what “special treatment” meant?