Trial of the Major War Criminals before International Military Tribunal ...

URNr. 1169
Ich beglaubige die Echtheit der vorstehenden Unterschrift der
Frau Theda Freifrau von R i t t e r , in Miinchen-Lochhausen,
Fichtenhof.
Ausweis: Registrierschein. -
Miinchen, den 7. Juni 1946.
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DOCUMENT NEURATH-4
AFFIDAVIT BY KURT PRUEFER, FORMER AMBASSADOR, CON-
CERNING 20 QUESTIONS PUT TO HIM BEFORE THE AMERICAN
VICE-CONSUL IN GENEVA, 16 APRIL 1946; NEURATH WISHED TO
ACHIEVE MITIGATION OF THE VERSAILLES TREATY PROVISIONS
BY NEGOTIATION AND AGREEMENT; HE WAS OPPOSED TO
RADICAL NATIONAL SOCIALIST DOCTRINES AND TO THE EX-
CESSES COMMITTED AGAINST POLITICAL OPPONENTS AND
JEWS; HE PROTECTED PEOPLE IN HIS OWN MINISTRY AGAINST
WHOM SUCH OBJECTIONS HAD BEEN RAISED AND WAS OPPOSED
TO THE TEST OF PARTY POLITICS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS;
NEURATH COULD NOT ASSUME THAT HITLER HAD POSSIBLY
BEEN INTENDING WAR FROM THE BEGINNING; CAREER DIPLO-
MATS WERE OUTSIDERS IN THIS MATTER; NEURATH WAS
PUSHED OUT OF OFFICE BY THE PARTY ON ACCOUNT OF HIS
PEACE POLICY (EXHIBIT NEURATH-4)
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Confederation of Switzerland, 1 SS:
Consulate of the Uniteld States of America.
Before me, J.Brock Havron, American Vice Consul in and for
the consular district of Geneva duly commissioned and qualified,
personally appeared Curt Pruefer who, being duly sworn, deposes
and says as follows: