VON NEURATH: I repeat, I was no longer a member of the Government. I learned of it only at the last moment.
THE TRIBUNAL (Gen. Nikitchenko): You were against the attack on the U.S.S.R.?
VON NEURATH: Yes, more so indeed; I always wanted the exact opposite. I wanted co-operation with the Soviet Union, I said that as early as 19...
THE TRIBUNAL (Gen. Nikitchenko): And still Germany attacked the Soviet Union?
VON NEURATH: Yes.
THE TRIBUNAL (Gen. Nikitchenko): Judging from your explanations, Hitler must have known about your political opposition and your disagreement with his policy; is it correct?
VON NEURATH: He knew that very well, for I resigned in 1938 for that reason.
THE TRIBUNAL (Gen. Nikitchenko): Yes. And you know how Hitler made short work of his political opponents?
VON NEURATH: In the Reich, yes.
THE TRIBUNAL (Gen. Nikitchenko): And so far as you were concerned, in spite of the fact that you sided with the opposition, nothing happened; that is true, is it not?