COL. POKROVSKY: My Lord, we submit this document to the Tribunal in the form of excerpts, Document Number USSR-460. In order to save time I would like you to hear several excerpts from this affidavit.
[Turning to the defendant.] You will be shown where they can be found on the original, and you can say whether it was correctly read into the record and whether you acknowledge and confirm it.
“My Attitude Towards Adolf Hitler and the Party. Disastrous influence on the fate of the German State...”
Did you find this place?
RAEDER: Yes, I have it.
COL. POKROVSKY: “Unimaginable vanity and immeasurable...”
DR. SIEMERS: Would you be kind enough to give me a copy so that I can follow?
COL. POKROVSKY: “Unimaginable vanity and immeasurable ambition were his main peculiarities; running after popularity and showing off, untruthfulness, vagueness, and selfishness, which were not restrained for the sake of State or People. He was outstanding in his greed, wastefulness, and effeminate unsoldierly manner.”
Then, a little further on:
“It is my conviction that Hitler very soon realized his character, but made use of him where it suited his purpose, and burdened him perpetually with new tasks in order to avoid his becoming dangerous to himself.”