Now, that is the first statement. Is it correct?
SPEER: Yes, it is.
DR. KRAUS: It is correct. The second statement deals with the events after 20 July. It reads as follows:
“It was on or about 22 July that Hitler said in my presence to a fairly large group of people....”
THE PRESIDENT: What year?
DR. KRAUS: 1944, Your Lordship.
“....that Schacht, as one of the opponents of the authoritarian system, should be one of those to be arrested. Hitler went on to speak harshly of Schacht’s activities and of the difficulties which he, Hitler, had experienced through Schacht’s economic policy as regards rearmament. He said that actually a man like Schacht should be shot for his oppositional activity before the war.”
The last sentence of the statement says:
“After the harshness of these remarks, I was surprised to meet Schacht here alive.”
Is this statement correct, too?