Defendant Lautz: Yes.
Q. Go ahead, please.
A. It begins with the words, “With the Reich Leader SS and the President of the People’s Court I agree with this.”
Q. Dr. Lautz, see if you can find this portion in the document which you have. I am sorry you don’t have the document book as it was originally distributed. I had it paginated for that. Can you find this statement? You say, “Therefore”—and I believe this is part of your letter—“Therefore, I find it necessary, on principle, to protect by means of the German Criminal (Penal) Code those racial Germans who have seriously suffered through action such as mentioned in article 91, paragraph 2 of the Penal Code, provided that action deserves punishment in accordance with sound German sentiment but where such punishment, considering the elements of wrongdoing of that particular case, cannot be brought home on the strength of any other directly applicable penal regulation.”
Those are your words, are they not?
A. Yes.
Q. And then you say in the final paragraph of the letter, “In the majority of the cases it will be offenses which have been committed by foreign nationals abroad against racial Germans.” Is that correct?
A. Yes, it is.
Q. That is correct, and those are your words?
Presiding Judge Brand: Will you answer audibly so that reporters may get it?