DR. HORN: I have one more question. After the last discussion on 30 August 1939 between the British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson and the then Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, in which the conditions for negotiating with Poland were made public, these conditions were published the next day in the Daily Telegraph; and allegedly this issue of the paper was recalled. What do you know about this article?
FRITZSCHE: First of all, I should like to correct another error which has found its way into your question. On the following morning in question, the Daily Telegraph did not publish the conditions or the note, but only published a report that during the preceding night the British Government had been in consultation on the German demands to Poland, conditions which had been transmitted to them by their Ambassador in Berlin. Therefore it could be seen from this article—at any rate, it could not be interpreted in any other way—that these conditions were known in London.
DR. HORN: Thank you very much.
DR. THOMA: Herr Fritzsche, you stated yesterday that the Völkischer Beobachter was in direct contact with the Führer and with the Führer’s headquarters throughout the war. What individual members on the staff of the Völkischer Beobachter were you referring to?
FRITZSCHE: I was not especially referring to people in the Völkischer Beobachter; I was thinking mainly of people at the Führer’s headquarters. So, Dr. Dietrich and his delegates made it their business always to call the Völkischer Beobachter directly.
DR. THOMA: You know that Rosenberg was no longer the chief editor of the Völkischer Beobachter after 1937?
FRITZSCHE: I am of the conviction that even before that time he held that position in name only.
DR. THOMA: Witness, can you tell the Court, as far as the so-called actions of the Party were concerned—for instance the burning of the books, the boycott in April of 1933, the pogrom in November of 1938—who the driving force in all of these actions was?
FRITZSCHE: Today I am of the firm conviction that it was Dr. Goebbels.
DR. THOMA: Witness, do you know that Goebbels, whenever Hitler was in Berlin, always was Hitler’s guest?