SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Then let us take Number 3, take the Social Democratic Party, that was a party which had taken a great share in the Government of Germany and of Prussia for the years since the war. Did you think it right, morally right, to make that party illegal and unable to take any further share in the carrying on of the country?
VON NEURATH: No, certainly not. But I do not at all know...
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Let us get it clear. Did you think it right or not?
VON NEURATH: I just told you “No” but I do not at all know whether you...
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: What did you do to protest against that? What did you do to protest against the dissolution of the Social Democratic Party?
VON NEURATH: The most I could do against this dissolution was to state my objections.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: To whom did you state your objection against the dissolution of the Social Democratic Party?
VON NEURATH: To Hitler, again and again.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Again and again you didn’t raise the dissolution of the parties, the opposition parties? You never raised that in the Cabinet; that is right, isn’t it?
VON NEURATH: I cannot remember whether this question was discussed in the Cabinet; I do not know any more.