JODL: Yes, but I was not present at this conference. I do recall the things that were read here.
MR. ROBERTS: I know you were not present. But presumably you, as head of the Home Defense Department, were told of what was said at the conference?
JODL: I have already stated with regard to that that the report which I received was in no way sensational. The directives for the preparations after this time are available to the Court in writing; what we prepared and worked out at the time is proved thereby. We have the orders of 20 May and of 14 June; they are available.
THE PRESIDENT: Defendant, you were only asked whether you were told what happened at the conference. It was not necessary to make a long statement about that.
MR. ROBERTS: You see, I try to put simple questions, and I am asking for simple answers. The last thing I want is to interrupt you.
Were you told that at that conference Hitler said that Germany’s problem was a question of space?
JODL: No, not one word.
MR. ROBERTS: Were you told that Hitler said that the German question could only be solved by force?
JODL: No.
MR. ROBERTS: And were you told that Hitler said that German rearmament was practically complete?