“No evil old priest these ties can sever;
We’re Hitler’s children now and ever.”
Wait until I get through.
VON SCHIRACH: I have not found the place.
MR. DODD: It is Page 228, a and b, I’m sorry. Maybe you will remember the song anyway if I read it to you. Do you remember the lines that said, “We don’t follow Christ but instead Horst Wessel”?
VON SCHIRACH: This is the first time I have seen this song. I do not know this song.
MR. DODD: All right; I will not go on reading it. You noticed that in an entry in the diary, the last paragraph, it says:
“The Advocate General notes that there is no doubt that the song in question was sung or circulated in Hitler Youth circles; he thinks that the statement that this song was sung at the Party Rally, that is, to a certain extent under the eyes and with the consent of the highest Party officials, can be refuted.”
VON SCHIRACH: The third stanza reads:
“I am no Christian, no Catholic;