NEUBACHER: Yes, I introduced this measure together with my Italian colleague D’Agostino at the end of October 1942.
DR. SAUTER: Thank you very much, Witness.
Mr. President, I have no further questions.
DR. STEINBAUER: Mr. President, Members of the Military Tribunal, for your information I am going to examine the witness on the question of the Anschluss.
Witness, you have described to the Tribunal your economic activities. Were you not active politically as well?
NEUBACHER: I was politically active as the chairman of the Austro-German People’s Union.
DR. STEINBAUER: What were the aims of that Austro-German People’s Union?
NEUBACHER: The Austro-German People’s Union was an organization which stood above parties and religious denominations, and which, in a one-sided manner, aimed at revising the Anschluss prohibition in the peace treaties by solving the question of the Austro-German Anschluss peacefully through plebiscite. In the executive committee of this Austro-German People’s Union, all parties were officially represented with the exception of the National Socialist and Communist Parties. The German organization of the same name was under the leadership of the Social Democratic President of the German Reichstag, Paul Loebe.
DR. STEINBAUER: Thank you. I have here a list of the executive committee which is dated 1926. You appear as chairman and Staatsrat Paul Speiser as deputy. Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart is named as treasurer, and then there is Dr. Benedikt Kautsky, one Georg Stern, Hofrat and President of the Banks’ Association, and a certain Dr. Stolper. Is that correct?
NEUBACHER: Yes.