Pressure On Czechoslovakia
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Received Thursday, 11.25 a.m. NUREMBERG, June 19. Concluding his case before the War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg, Franz von Papen, former Reich Ambassador to Foreign Ldnds, said, "I never denied it," when Sir Donald Maxwell-Fyfe, K.C., deputy British pr'osecutor asked him if he denied that he; did not exert pressure on the Czech Chancellor, Dr. Schusch- j nigg, to agree to Hitler's demands. j Asked why, as one of the leading j Catholic laymenhn Germany, he did j not protest ' against the attack by j 100 youths against Cardinal Innit- j " zer's palace in Vienna in October, J j 1938, Papen . said he was only a ; private citizen. He added : "What j could-I have done." / One of Hitler's Closest Friends Hitler's armament Ghief , Albert ! Speer, then entered the witness box. j He said that if -Hitler had any j friends at all he (Speer). must cer- I I tainly have been one of his closest. ; I Speer said Germany's labour army i between 1942 and 1944 grew from 1 2,600,000 to 14,000,000. These figures J applied to the Greater Reich with- j out the occupied countries.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1946, Page 5
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