THE PRESIDENT: You may sit down.
DR. FRITZ: Herr Fritzsche, will you please describe briefly your career up to the year 1933?
FRITZSCHE: As to that, may I refer to my affidavit, Document 3469-PS, Points 1 and 3 to 8? In addition I can limit myself now to a broad outline.
DR. FRITZ: Mr. President, I should like to remark at the beginning of the examination that my document books, of which I have two, have not yet been completely translated. This affidavit, which the defendant has just mentioned, is also contained in the document book for the Prosecution. I do not know whether the Tribunal now has this document book.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, you can go on.
FRITZSCHE: I was born on 21 April 1900. My father was a civil servant. I attended the gymnasium to study classics. Then I was a soldier in the first World War, returned to school, and afterward, studied philosophy, history, and national economics at various universities.
After the first World War my life and my work were determined by the distress of my people. We called this distress “Versailles.” Enough has been said here as to the Versailles Treaty. I need add nothing to what has already been said.
DR. FRITZ: You were striving then in your journalistic work before 1933 for a change of the Versailles Treaty?
FRITZSCHE: Yes, of course.
DR. FRITZ: Did you seek this change through war?