SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: I see. I would just like to put the next sentence and then I will leave this document:
“I know too that Alfred Rosenberg, who lived in the same street with me, purloined a house from a Jew in similar fashion.”
Do you know anything of that?
VON NEURATH: I do not know how Herr Rosenberg acquired his house.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Now, Defendant, I want you to come now to March of 1938. Perhaps I can take this shortly if I have understood you correctly. You know that the Prosecution complained about your reply to the British Ambassador with regard to the Anschluss. As I understand you, you are not now suggesting that your reply was accurate; but you are saying that that was the best of your information at the time, is that right?
VON NEURATH: Yes, that is quite correct. It is true. That was an incorrect statement but I just did not know any better; do you see?
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: You say that you did not hear—that neither Hitler nor Göring told you a word about these ultimatums which were given first of all to Herr Von Schuschnigg and secondly to President Miklas; you were told nothing about that? Is that what you are telling?
VON NEURATH: No, at that time—at that time I knew nothing. I heard about them later.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: My Lord, I am going to leave that. I am not going into that incident in detail—we have been over it several times—in view of the way that the defendant is not contesting the accuracy.
THE PRESIDENT: I should like to know when he heard of the true facts.