THE PRESIDENT: Which answer was that?
DR. VON LÜDINGHAUSEN: That was the affidavit of the former Ambassador Dr. Curt Prüfer.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I know that. I wanted to know which answer it was.
DR. VON LÜDINGHAUSEN: I see, Number 4. It is an affidavit, it is not a questionnaire in this sense.
THE PRESIDENT: It is paragraphed in our copy, at any rate.
DR. VON LÜDINGHAUSEN: Number 18; it is the answer to Question 18.
May I also draw your attention to an affidavit by Baroness Ritter of Munich. Baroness Ritter is a distant relative of the defendant. She is the widow of the former Bavarian Ambassador to the Holy See. She has known Von Neurath for many years and is very familiar with his way of thinking.
This is Number Neurath-3 in my Document Book 1, and I should like to quote from Page 3, just one short passage:
“The same tolerant attitude which he had toward Christian denominations he also had toward the Jewish question. Therefore he rejected Hitler’s racial policy as a matter of principle. In practice he also succeeded in preventing any elimination of Jews under his jurisdiction until the year 1937.
“Furthermore, he helped all persons who were close to him professionally or personally, and who had been affected by the legislation concerning Jews, insofar as he was able, in order to protect them from financial and other disadvantages.”