Perhaps you would read this paragraph, known already to the Tribunal.
“...death of representatives of friendly or confirmed neutral powers.”
That means an air raid before there has been any declaration of war or any warning to the civilian population, doesn’t it?
JODL: That meant that I called the attention of the Führer, through this document, to the fact that on the basis of his decree that result could or would come about.
MR. ROBERTS: Would you call that a terror attack? A terror attack?
JODL: It cannot be said under what conditions such an action would be launched. These are all theoretical tasks for our General Staff. How and if that was translated into practice, that no one can say, whether with justice or injustice; that depended on the political decision.
MR. ROBERTS: I will show you later how those thoughts were carried into practice in the case of other countries. So we will leave that document altogether now and I will leave the case of Czechoslovakia. Now you were recalled to the OKW on the 23d of August 1939, from your artillery employment. We know that, don’t we?
JODL: Yes.
MR. ROBERTS: That was a great compliment to the opinion that the Führer had of you, wasn’t it?
JODL: The Führer was not responsible for my being called back. I do not know whether he knew about it at all. I do not believe so.