GODT: Yes.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Again when he came back?
GODT: In general, yes, almost always.
COL. PHILLIMORE: In general. Are you seriously telling the Tribunal that none of these officers who were briefed that this was an annihilation order, that none of them raised the question either with you or with Admiral Dönitz?
GODT: In no circumstances was this order discussed.
COL. PHILLIMORE: But I suggest to you now that this order was very carefully drafted to be ambiguous; deliberately, so that any U-boat commander who was prepared to behave as he did was entitled to do so under the order. Isn’t that right?
GODT: That is an assertion.
COL. PHILLIMORE: And that you and Hessler, you tried to stop this order being issued?
GODT: I have already said that I do not remember this.
COL. PHILLIMORE: My Lord, I have no further questions.