JODL: That is a political question. At any rate it could perhaps have become the happiest country on earth.
MR. ROBERTS: I wasn’t asking what it could have become, but what it received. It received the SS, the Gestapo, the concentration camps, the suppression of opponents, and the persecution of Jews, didn’t it?
JODL: Those are questions with which I did not concern myself. Those questions you have to put to the competent authorities. In addition it received me as artillery commander; and they loved me; I only want to confirm that.
MR. ROBERTS: Very good. You say the people appeared pleased to see you?
JODL: The people who were under my jurisdiction were very happy about this officer; I can say that.
MR. ROBERTS: They had to appear to be, whether they were or not, didn’t they?
JODL: No, they did not have to be. At any rate, after I had been away for a long time, they certainly did not have to write enthusiastic letters to me, letters which I received throughout the war from these Austrians to whom my heart belonged.
MR. ROBERTS: There was one man who was not pleased to see you, wasn’t there?
JODL: I know no such person.
MR. ROBERTS: Don’t you?