WAGNER: Yes.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Did these assignments have anything to do with the Navy?
WAGNER: No.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Can you see any indication in the whole document which would suggest that the Navy had anything at all to do with the capture or the treatment of this Commando unit?
WAGNER: No, the document does not contain an indication of that sort.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: You were asked this morning about the case of the Monte Corbea. In connection with a court-martial ruling against the commander, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Raeder, sent a wireless message at that time to all commanders. This radiogram is recorded in Document Dönitz-78 in the document book, Volume IV, Page 230. I shall read that wireless message to you:
“The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy has personally and expressly renewed his instructions that all U-boat commanders must adhere strictly to the orders regarding the treatment of neutral ships. Any infringement of these orders has incalculable political consequences. This order is to be communicated to all commanders immediately.”
Do you see any suggestion here that the order is restricted to Spanish ships?
WAGNER: No, there is no such suggestion in this order.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: I submit to you a document which was used yesterday, D-807. It deals with notes to the Norwegian Government on the sinking of several steamers and contains the drafts of these notes of the High Command of the Navy. Does this document yield any indication at all that the notes were actually sent, or is it impossible to tell from the drafts that the notes themselves were ever dispatched?