:)))) Более того, почитайте дальше, как уличали Риббентропа в его
лживых показаниях о миролябии Гитлера и его нерешительности в польском вопросе до момента заключения соглашения со Сталиным.
`A. It may be strange to say so, but I should like to say, first, that it looks as if I was not present during this
conference. That was a military conference, and Hitler used to hold these military conferences quite separately
from the political conferences. He did now and then mention that we had to have Lebensraum (living space), but
I knew nothing, and he never told me anything at that time - that is in May 1939 - of an intention to attack Poland.
Yes, I think this was kept apart deliberately as had been done in other cases, because he always wanted his
diplomats to work wholeheartedly for a diplomatic solution.
Q. You mean to say that Hitler was deliberately keeping you in the dark as to his real aims; that Danzig was not
the subject of dispute and what he really wanted was Lebensraum; is that your story?
A. Yes, I assume that he did that deliberately because -
Q. Well now, just look at the very short paragraph a little further on where he says: "There is no question of
sparing Poland, and we are left with no alternative but to attack her at the first suitable opportunity. We cannot
expect a repetition of the Czech affair. There will be war. Our task is to isolate Poland."
Do you tell the Tribunal that he never said that to his Foreign Minister?
A. I did not quite understand that question.
Q. It is a perfectly simple one. Do you tell the Tribunal that Hitler never mentioned what I have just read from his
speech, that there is to be no question of sparing Poland; that you had to attack Poland at the first opportunity,
and your task was to isolate Poland? Are you telling the Tribunal that Hitler never mentioned that to his Foreign
Minister, who would have the practical conduct of foreign policy?
A. No, he did not mention it at that time, but, according to my recollection, only much later - in the summer of
1939 to be exact. At that time he did say that he was resolved to solve the problem one way or another.
Q. And do you say that you did not know in May that Hitler wanted war?
A. Did he want what?
Q. You did not know in May that Hitler wanted war?
