You were asked, “I should like you to peruse this document. Do you remember these statements?”
You said, “Of course, there is no doubt about it.”
And further: “Do you corroborate this document, which you perused and which was signed by you?”
And you replied, “Of course.”
Do you remember these statements which you made in Nuremberg?
FRITZSCHE: In the statement which you have quoted, all those passages are missing where I stated again and again that the record was put before me complete and finished for the purpose of obtaining my signature. I wished to make 20 or 30 alterations. Some of them were granted but passages were missing wherein I said in Nuremberg that some of the answers in that protocol contained a certain amount of truth but that none of them actually do represent my own answers.
GEN. RUDENKO: Very well. I should now like to remind you of an extract from your statement of 7 January 1946.
Your Honors, this is Document 3469-PS. It is not in my book of documents as it was submitted by the Counsel for the Defense. I am going to quote from that document; it is a very short passage.
[Turning to the defendant.] This is Paragraph 39 of your statement:
“Once Goebbels tried to coerce me into submitting my texts for perusal. I refused this request and explained that usually I dictated a short résumé of my speech immediately before my broadcast and consequently, so to say, improvised my speeches. He said it was all right but on condition that if he would wish it, I should at least speak on specific, given themes.”