DR. LATERNSER: As far as I am informed, Mr. President, they have not yet all been given.
[Turning to the defendant.] During that conference did Hitler state...
THE PRESIDENT: One moment. Haven’t you already given the reasons which, you say, Hitler gave for this order?
JODL: I have not given some very important reasons, which the Führer also pointed out. They were...
THE PRESIDENT: Wait a minute.
Dr. Laternser, I have already had to ask you to be more brief on many occasions in which you have examined witnesses, and really you have spent over an hour already on this High Command Staff. Every witness who comes to the box you take a very long time over, and the Tribunal think that a great deal of their time has been wasted by you. Now, this witness can give any further reasons, but I do not want any argument about it. He can give his explanation now.
JODL: I have only to add that the Führer said on that occasion: “If you do not believe what I am telling you, then read the reports from Counterintelligence which we have received regarding the behavior of the Russian commissars in the occupied Baltic states. Then you will get a picture of what can be expected from these commissars.”
He also stated that.
DR. LATERNSER: I should like to put a question to you about the report in Document 884-PS, submitted under Exhibit USSR-351.
THE PRESIDENT: Repeat the number please.