A. Yes.
Q. On 12 May 1942, in this same exhibit and document, you write again to Dr. Lammers, and this time you say:
“Dear Reich Minister Dr. Lammers:
“With regard to your request, I am sending you today some material from which, I think, follows that a Reich Minister of Justice controlling criminal justice cannot dispense with the possibility not to confirm a sentence. I may add that when the draft of the decree was already under way to you, Reich Marshal Goering explained to me in detail at a visit in Karinhall that he in the sphere of Wehrmacht justice, sector Luftwaffe, could only overcome the difficulties of heterogeneous legal administration by this confirmation, and that in his opinion it was definitely necessary to introduce the confirmation also for civil justice.”
Then I am going to skip a sentence and I’d like to read the last paragraph of the letter:
“I would be especially grateful to you, dear Reich Minister Lammers, if you would present the matter to the Fuehrer again. I have the hope therewith that, if the Fuehrer rejects the present handling of criminal justice, and on the strength of your argument, knows that the confirmatory proceeding is the only and safe remedy, he will not withhold this remedy from the Reich Minister of Justice.
“With best wishes and Heil Hitler,
“Yours very sincerely, signed Dr. Schlegelberger.”
As I recall your testimony, it was that Hitler had been very abusive to you in his speech of 26 April 1942, and that after that you had made up your mind to resign. Is that what you testified to?
A. Yes. I have said that I wanted to make it clear whether these attacks were directed against the administration of justice, and in that case I was determined to let matters drift toward a break and to withdraw from my office.