JODL: Yes, I see my signature.
COL. POKROVSKY: You have found it? It is a directive on the organization of propaganda in connection with “Case Barbarossa.” Is that correct?
JODL: Yes.
COL. POKROVSKY: Are you going to deny that in that directive, issued by you, the question is clearly put that the U.S.S.R., as a sovereign state, should be destroyed and that you consider that a purely military problem—you, an officer of the General Staff, did not deal with politics?
JODL: I cannot find the place where it says that Russia is to be destroyed.
COL. POKROVSKY: You are quite right if you want to draw attention to the wording. It is not stated there in just these words. I am thinking of the general sense of the directive, particularly of Subparagraph “d.”
JODL: Yes, but—I know the document.
COL. POKROVSKY: I want to read out one sentence:
“Propaganda aiming at the dismemberment of the Soviet Union into separate states shall not be used for the time being.”
Further on there are a couple of technical remarks, and then it says in the same paragraph: