ROSENBERG: I heard this through the foreign press and it is about...
MR. DODD: When did you first hear that through the foreign press?
ROSENBERG: That was already in the first months of 1933.
MR. DODD: And did you continuously read the foreign press about the concentration camps in Germany from 1933 to 1938?
ROSENBERG: I did not read the foreign press at all for unfortunately I do not speak English. I received only some excerpts from it from time to time, and in the German press there were occasional references to it with the strict declaration that these allegations were not true. I can still remember the statement by Minister Göring in which he said that it was beyond his comprehension that something like that could be written.
MR. DODD: But you thought they were true to the extent that there were unfavorable things in that place that Himmler might not show you.
ROSENBERG: Yes, I assumed that in such a revolutionary process surely a number of excesses were taking place, that in some districts also on occasion there might be conflicts, and that the fact that murders of National Socialists in the months subsequent to the seizure of the power continued most probably resulted in sharp countermeasures here and there.
MR. DODD: Did you think that was still going on in 1938, these measures against the National Socialists?
ROSENBERG: No. The chief reports upon the continuance of murders of members of the Hitler Youth, of the Police, and of members of the Party were made especially in 1943 and 1944, but I do not remember that many reports still were published about this in subsequent years...
THE PRESIDENT: Did you say 1943 and 1944 or 1933 and 1934? Which is it?