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units had to be waived in
consideration of the snow storm prevailing. In spite of these weather
conditions, however, the reconnaissance planes fulfilled their missions. As
soon as the weather cleared up a little, on 3/16/1939, strong air units of Air
Fleet 1 (commanding general: General of Aviation Kesselring) and 3 (commanding
general: General of Aviation Sperrle), and Air Command Austria (commanding
general: Lt. General Loehr) fulfilled their mission over Bohemia and Moravia,
so that the strength of the German Air Force was also demonstrated in practice
to the Czech nation.
“On 16 March the first air squadrons landed
on the Czech airfields which had previously been occupied by the army.”
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Percy G. Black
Major, F.A.,
Acting Military Attache,
Report 16682. |
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| 3. DEFENSE TESTIMONY |
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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT SPERRLE 79 |
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SPERRLE DEFENSE EXHIBIT 79 |
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| SWORN DEPOSITION OF KURT VON SCHUSCHNIGG, 14 JUNE 1948, ANSWERING
INTERROGATORIES SUBMITTED BY COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANT SPERRLE AND BY THE
PROSECUTION* |
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| INTERROGATORIES TO BE PROPOUNDED TO KURT VON SCHUSCHNIGG
STIPULATION |
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It is agreed between Dr. Kurt Gollnick on behalf of the defendant
Hugo Sperrle, and Baucum Fulkerson on behalf of the prosecution, that the
attached interrogatories and cross-interrogatories shall be forwarded to Dr.
Kurt von Schuschnigg and that the answers which he makes thereto shall be duly
signed and sworn to before some officer authorized to administer oaths.
It is understood that counsel for the prosecution or for the defendant
Hugo Sperrle, both reserve the right to object to any of the questions or
answers on the ground of incompetency, irre- […levancy] |
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* [The interrogatories were accepted in
evidence by this Tribunal on 22 July 1948 (Tr. pp. 8306-8309). Before reading
them into the record, Dr. Gollnick, counsel for defendant Sperrle made the
following statement:
“Pursuant to an agreement with the
prosecution, Federal Chancellor von Schugchnigg was interrogated in the
following manner. He made an affidavit in St. Louis in the United States, where
he is residing at present, replying to questions which were Put to him both by
the defense and the prosecution. This document is available to me now.”
PRESIDING JUDGE YOUNG: “Do you have any comments to make on that
document?”
Dr. GOLLNICK: “I have no comments to make. The
document speaks for itself” (Tr. pp. 8302-8305).
Thereupon, the
document was copied into the record in accordance with the order of the
Tribunal.]
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