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SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Witness, do
you remember Hitler saying in his Reichstag speech on 20 February 1938:
“National Socialism possesses Germany entirely and completely. There is no
institution in this State which is not National Socialist.” Do you
remember these wolrds, or if you do not remember the exact words do you
remember the sense of these words being stated by Hitler?
KAUFMANN: I remember the sense of the words, but not the words
themselves.
SIR DAVID
MAXWELL-FYFE: My Lord, the extract from the speech is in Document Book 5, in
Document 2715-PS.
[Turning to the witness.] Do you agree with the sense of these words?
KAUFMANN: No.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE:
Do you think it was an exaggeration?
KAUFMANN: I am convinced that not all
institutions were at that time National. Socialist.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: But you would
agree that the vast majority of institutions were National Socialist?
KAUFMANN: They were in
the process of becoming National Socialist, but that process had not been
completed.
SIR DAVID
MAXWELL-FYFE: So you would agree that what Hitler states as a fact was the aim
for which he was working?
KAUFMANN: Yes.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: And the method by which he was working for
that aim was through the system of political leadership conducted by the
Leadership Corps?
KAUFMANN: By that means the aim could be reached only in part.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE:
It was one essential method of possessing Germany in the sense of getting
complete control of the minds and hearts and feelings of the population of
Germany, was it not?
KAUFMANN: No, in my opinion only at the beginning.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Only at the
beginning? But that was the work which had gone on from 1933 up to 1938, when
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