VON NEURATH: I can only repeat that I had no opportunity to procure any other information. No one knew about it except Hitler.
THE PRESIDENT: Are you telling the Tribunal that Göring did not know about it?
VON NEURATH: Perhaps Göring knew about it.
THE PRESIDENT: That is all. The defendant can return to the dock.
DR. VON LÜDINGHAUSEN: Mr. President, I ask permission to call the first witness, the former Ministerial Director, and head of the political section in the Foreign Ministry, Dr. Köpke.
[The witness Köpke took the stand.]
THE PRESIDENT: Will you state your full name, please?
GERHARD KÖPKE (Witness): Gerhard Köpke.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you repeat the oath after me: I swear by God—the Almighty and Omniscient—that I will speak the pure truth—and will withhold and add nothing.
[The witness repeated the oath.]