THE PRESIDENT: What time is the witness speaking of? He said up to then the minutes had been kept on the personal initiative of the person who took them. What time is he speaking of?
DR. SIEMERS: From what time, according to your recollection, were these minutes taken by the stenographers?
SCHULTE-MÖNTING: From 1942, I believe.
DR. SIEMERS: From 1942?
SCHULTE-MÖNTING: It might also be 1941. During the war, at any rate.
DR. SIEMERS: But your conversation with Hitler was in January 1939?
SCHULTE-MÖNTING: Yes, January 1939.
DR. SIEMERS: Admiral, what did the stenographic minutes look like later on? Did you ever see them?
SCHULTE-MÖNTING: We repeatedly asked for excerpts from the minutes and tried to compare them with the prepared text and they too contained contradictions.
DR. SIEMERS: Now, I come to the period when Hitler prepared for war against Russia, and I am going to show you the Directive Number 21, of 18 December 1940, concerning the Case Barbarossa.