VON NEURATH: I did not understand.
MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: Was it correctly translated to you just now?
VON NEURATH: Yes; the translation did not come through on the last question, or rather the last sentence. I did not understand the last sentence.
MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: Well, I will put it to you that you know the document well.
VON NEURATH: Yes; but I did not understand the last sentence of your question.
MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: I shall try to say it in such a way that you will understand it now. In this order of yours, in the penultimate paragraph, it is stated, “The responsibility for all acts of sabotage will be borne not only by the individual perpetrators, but by the entire Czechoslovak population.” This means that not only guilty persons have to be punished, but there were punishments set up for innocent people too. With this order you inaugurated the mass terrorism against the Czech population.
VON NEURATH: Not at all. It only meant that the moral responsibility for any possible acts was to be laid to the account of the Czech people.
MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: Well, in Lidice, was this not applied in practice? Was it only a question of the moral responsibility there?
VON NEURATH: Yes, yes.
MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: In this order you state the following: “Those who do not take these necessities into account will be considered enemies of the Reich.” To the enemies of the Reich you applied only the principles of moral responsibility and nothing else?