ARGUMENT WITH PROSECUTOR

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24896, 8 June 1946, Page 7

ARGUMENT WITH PROSECUTOR

JODL QUESTIONED AT NUREMBERG

CONCEPTS OF HONOUR

See. 7 pm.) NUREMBERG, June «. Jodi, former Chief of Operations in fee German forces, was temporarily oaken out of the calm with which ie gave his evidence for three days aefore the war crimes court, when assistant British prosecutor '-ened his cross-examination by ask--31 whether, in consequence of his «s of the last six or seven years, he ’taught his soldier’s honour had be- . ®ea little soiled. Jodi winced, and answered that his aour was unsoiled. His face redhen the prosecutor asked: Op you think your truthfulness retoned at the same high level in those Sars, in the light of the directives say you had to circulate?” Jodi fctastically replied: “I think I am ta stupid to answer the question.” rhe prosecutor then asked Jodi W the plans for the Rhineland refcnpation, and the concealment of ras, uniforms, and other equipment : tne demilitarised zone while Hitler K making speeches giving assurances the Versailles Treaty was being Jodi said he did not think • at that was a breach of the treaty.

'Jas a precaution against a possible by France eastwards, in which Germany would have been block along the Rhine. Prosecutor asked whether Dr SJ Bc “Bigg. the former Austriar was put in a concentratior Jodi replied that he had beer « under honourable detention. me prosecutor: You mean he was Jp in Dachau? jool angrily replied: “You cannol Questions like that to me.” ine prosecutor: That is an honoui would be glad to dispense with, ni Prosecutor and Jodi continued J 4 ? * n one tbe sharpest ver--4 tji of the trial- The prosecutor ‘Jodi over the details of every gjwve German campaign on t® 6 Plans bore Jodi’s initials, juJeproached him with breaches ol C™auonal law for each. Jodi each sa id ; “These are political & Questions about the word of honour, saying that ■s' kept but not i n poli- , w hy it was not grossly > f° r Germany to break w. X, over and over again, Jodi U must put that question to e responsible for formulating ?01icy ” Xt the same bitterness b SE bing of Dresden as bn Wben replying to a quesmany bad been killed in the I don’t if ck on Belgrade, he said: e po-i know, but T think about 10 tbe number of civilians hr i Dresden raid after the GoZ? s already won.” an . d Hess nodded their friled 1 7?H sla stically, and Doenitz Jodi 31 • s . ans wer. *^hA gain hit back at the prosecutn he J* as Questioned about the shoot commandos. The id r _, suggested that if Germany *8 hpoJj e , war nothing would have >seianti ab °ut Keitel’s and Jodi’s W 1 «! OUs Sections. h?n w? a £° e . d back ’ “Perhaps not. ' rj citiZ c ’P’ght have heard of other After ri t i a u sirnilar trial.” i?f »f Ain j a d admitted the shoot- * “shir a,r ™en at Stalag Luft 3 TJJlder.” the prosecutor i Then we find honouroyalty 6 ” V^ng mu rder with