THE PRESIDENT: All right.
[A recess was taken.]
DR. SIEMERS: If it please Your Honors, may the Witness Freiherr Von Weizsäcker, be called?
[The witness Von Weizsäcker took the stand.]
THE PRESIDENT: Will you state your full name, please?
ERNST VON WEIZSÄCKER (Witness): Ernst von Weizsäcker.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you repeat this oath after me: I swear by God—the Almighty and Omniscient—that I will speak the pure truth—and will withhold and add nothing.
[The witness repeated the oath.]
THE PRESIDENT: You may sit down.
DR. SIEMERS: Baron Von Weizsäcker, at the beginning of the war you were State Secretary in the Foreign Office, is that correct?