THE PRESIDENT: That is what I said; the footnote was not known to the German Admiralty. Who wrote it?
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: The footnote is part of this document, which can be found in the collection Dokumente der Deutschen Politik...
THE PRESIDENT: Is the Defendant Ribbentrop the author of it?
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: No, Mr. President. The Dokumente der Deutschen Politik are an official collection, and the footnotes have been written by the editor of that collection on the basis of official material.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I see.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Now I come to the documents concerning naval warfare in general. A large part of those are in Sir David’s Group 3. The first document is Dönitz-60, on Page 152. It concerns an American note of 6 October 1939, and is in connection with the Document Dönitz-61, to which the Prosecution has not objected. It is in Volume III of the document book, Mr. President. Volume III, Page 152. This document is an American reply to the document which you will find two pages before this, on Page 150. Both documents deal with the warning of neutral nations against suspicious actions of their merchant vessels. The question is relevant in respect to Exhibit GB-193 of the Prosecution. In this document a charge is made against an order that ships which act suspiciously—that is, proceed without lights—should be sunk.
The next document is from Sir David’s Group 1, Dönitz-69, on Page 170, in Book 3. It is an excerpt from several copies of the Völkischer Beobachter of November and December 1939. In these copies are published lists of armed British and French passenger ships. This document also is in connection with a preceding document and the one following. All these documents deal with the question of treatment of passenger ships by the naval warfare command.
THE PRESIDENT: I think you had better give the numbers of the documents. You said the next document and the one before it. I think you had better give the numbers of the documents.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Yes. That is Document 69, Mr. President, Dönitz-69, and it is on Page 170, in Book 3.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I know it is, but you said something about documents that were akin, or some words to that effect, to the documents next to it.