A. Yes.
Q. Now, you endeavored to see Hitler to persuade him not to enter this war.
A. Yes.
Q. And your immediate circle, your military friends, realized that it was foolhardy to provoke a war with Russia and thereby establish two fronts?
A. Exactly the way I saw it, yes. My immediate circle were of the same opinion as I was.
Q. And all the generals were of the same impression—that it was hopeless for Germany, and that further it was tragic and suicidal to Germany to allow Hitler to take over the control of the armed forces? You were practically unanimous in that belief, were you not?
A. This was never discussed in any larger circles.
Q. But you have testified—it is in the record—that you were all of that belief.
A. It transpired at a later stage, when it was discussed, that they were all of the same opinion.
Q. When was that?