DR. KUBUSCHOK: May I refer to Document 33, Page 113, a statement by Hitler on 10 March, the last two lines:
“Annoying individuals, obstructing automobiles, or disturbing business life must absolutely be discontinued.”
On the same page, Page 113, a declaration of Hitler on 12 March, last sentence of the paragraph next to the last:
“Whoever, from now on, attempts by individual action to cause disturbances in our administrative or business life, acts consciously against the National Government.”
THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Kubuschok, I did not intend to prevent the defendant telling the Tribunal what he had done with reference to his telegram to the New York Times, but I wanted him in the first instance to answer your question.
Now, if he wants to add anything about what he telegraphed to the New York Times, let him do so.
DR. KUBUSCHOK: Will you then, please, go back to this point in connection with the New York Times.
VON PAPEN: I can only add, My Lord, that it would be quite inconceivable that on 25 April I should send this telegram to New York knowing that 3 or 4 days later a new Jewish boycott would be carried out; that is completely nonsensical. Moreover, I might point out that on the same day Herr Von Neurath sent a similar wire to Cardinal O’Connell.
DR. KUBUSCHOK: Will you now give an account of your attitude to the Jewish problem?
VON PAPEN: My attitude toward the Jewish problem can be briefly delineated; it has always, throughout my life, been the attitude expected by the Catholic Church of its members. I stated my view on the question of race, as regards National Socialist doctrine, quite publicly in a speech in Gleiwitz in the year 1933, and my counsel will submit that speech as evidence.