VON SCHIRACH: That the youth was trained in a military way I believe is not mentioned in one single sentence in that entire article.
MR. DODD: Oh, I know. I am simply asking if it isn’t a fact that you were claiming credit in this article for having had something considerable to do with the fact that these 19-year-old boys were such good fighters in Russia. That is all I am asking you.
VON SCHIRACH: I have already told you that I wanted to train the youth to become good citizens, and that I wanted to train them to be good patriots, who did their duty in the field later on.
MR. DODD: All right.
VON SCHIRACH: And should also do their duty in the field.
MR. DODD: Well, your answer then is, yes, you were claiming credit for the fact that they were such good fighters. Now, there is no trick in this question. It is merely preliminary, and I want to get on, but I think you might say “yes.” And incidentally, this song, “The flag is more than death,” was a song that you wrote, wasn’t it?
VON SCHIRACH: The “Flag Song” which I based on the refrain “The flag is more than death.” That is true.
MR. DODD: Now, you have also published a number of other songs for young people, in the formative days before the war started, in a songbook.
VON SCHIRACH: A great many songbooks for young people were published. I do not know them all.
MR. DODD: No, I don’t either, but I am asking you if it isn’t a fact that you did publish songbooks for young people.