“I remember reading afterwards in a British paper that Hitler’s
driver for many years, Kempka, made a statement somewhere that
Bormann, with whom apparently he fled, was dead.”
That is all I am able to submit, Mr. President; the real witnesses have
unfortunately not been found.
I now come to the documents. In order to shorten my evidence, may I
refer to the document book which I have submitted. All these documents
contain orders of Bormann which were collected and have appeared in a
body of laws called _Orders of the Deputy of the Führer_. I request that
the Tribunal take judicial notice of these official orders. I shall
bring up the legal argument arising from these documents in my final
speech.
I merely want to refer now briefly to Order Number 23/36; it is the
order under the figure 8.
THE PRESIDENT: Do you mean PS?
DR. BERGOLD: No, it is order Number 8 in my document book, Mr.
President. I particularly want to draw the Tribunal’s attention to it
without quoting from it.
I now turn to the document book submitted by the Prosecution, and I
should like to read a short passage from 098-PS, on Page 4, the second
paragraph at the top.
THE PRESIDENT: Did you say 098-PS?
DR. BERGOLD: Yes, Document 098-PS, Bormann’s letter dated 22 February
1940 and addressed to Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg.
THE PRESIDENT: Page 4?
DR. BERGOLD: Page 4. It is the letter in which Bormann rails against the
Christian religion. Nevertheless, he writes as follows, Page 4:
“With regard to religious instruction in schools it seems to me
that the existing conditions need not be changed. No National
Socialist teacher, according to the clear-cut directives of the
Deputy of the Führer, must be accused in any way, if he is
prepared to teach the Christian religion in the schools.”