COL. PHILLIMORE: Yes; were they accurate?
WAGNER: They contained salient points about the things which had happened at headquarters.
COL. PHILLIMORE: They were an accurate record, were they?
WAGNER: Undoubtedly I believed that things had taken place as they are recorded here.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Now, did you agree with Admiral Dönitz’ advice that it would be better to carry out the measures considered necessary without warning and at all costs to save face with the outer world? Did you agree with that?
WAGNER: I already explained yesterday, clearly and unequivocally, how I interpreted this sentence which was formulated by me; and I have nothing to add to that statement. In the sense which I stated yesterday, I agree completely.
COL. PHILLIMORE: And the step which Hitler wanted to take was to put prisoners of war in the bombed towns, was it not? Was that not the breach of the Convention that he wanted to make?
WAGNER: No, it was the renunciation of all the Geneva agreements; not only the agreement about prisoners of war, but also the agreement on hospitals ships, the Red Cross agreement, and other agreements which had been made at Geneva.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Then what were the measures considered necessary which could be taken without warning? Just look at that sentence.
WAGNER: I do not understand that.