JODL: Yes, I believe, I recalled that at the time. I am quite sure.
MR. ROBERTS: Very good; and we know there was an assurance at the beginning of the war to reassure all these western neutrals, and there was another assurance on the 6th of October; and you say that in November Hitler decided to invade Denmark and Norway?
JODL: Yes. I testified as to that at length yesterday.
MR. ROBERTS: I know you did. Please don’t always say that. I have got to ask you to go over the same ground from the other angle, you see. “Norway,” as your speech said—and I am quoting from Page 291 of Book 7—perhaps you had better give it to him—Page 11 of your notes...
[Turning to the Tribunal.] It is in the middle, My Lord, under Paragraph 8:
“In the meantime we were confronted by a new and urgent problem: The occupation of Norway and Denmark....
“In the first place there was danger that England would seize Scandinavia and thereby, besides effecting a strategic encirclement from the north, would stop the import of iron and nickel which was of such importance to us for war purposes. Secondly, it was with the realization of our own maritime necessities”—“Notwendigkeiten”—that is the word, isn’t it—“Notwendigkeiten”...
My Lord, that ought to be “necessary” and not “imperative”—“erforderten.”
“...which made it necessary for us to secure free access to the Atlantic by a number of air and naval bases.”
[Turning to the defendant.] You wanted air bases and U-boat bases, didn’t you?