THE PRESIDENT: Then later in this interrogation the Defendant Dönitz said:
“I am completely and personally responsible for it”—that is that order—“because Captains Godt and Hessler both expressly stated that they considered the telegram as ambiguous or liable to be misinterpreted.”
Did you say that this telegram was ambiguous or liable to be misinterpreted?
HESSLER: I do not remember that point. I do not think I thought the telegram was ambiguous.
THE PRESIDENT: And lastly the Defendant Dönitz said this:
“I would like to emphasize once more that both Captain Godt and Captain Hessler were violently opposed to the sending of the telegram.”
Do you say that you were not violently opposed to the sending of the telegram?
HESSLER: It is possible that we opposed the dispatch of the telegram because we did not consider it necessary to refer to the matter again.
THE PRESIDENT: Did you say anything to the Defendant Dönitz about this telegram at all?
HESSLER: At the drafting of the telegram we talked it over, just as we discussed every wireless message drafted by us. As time went on, we drafted many hundreds of wireless messages so that it is impossible to remember just what was said in each case.